On the day of the Super Bowl I was watching a Megyn Kelly video about the commercials broadcast during the Super Bowl to see what is the state of American culture. Two ads I noted in particular were a Carl’s Jr promotion and another was a Bud Light one. The Carl’s Jr one shows an “influencer” – really a vapid media personality – showing off the new Carl’s Jr burger in all of its glory and the men there were slobbering over both objects (woman and burger). The second commercial was a more wholesome one that I liked. It was a neighborhood having a party in their cul-de-sac with both Shane Gillis and Peyton Manning enjoying Bud Lites.
Now it’s easy to say that I didn’t like the first one because it’s gratuitous and move on, but it was the comments that were said by Kelly and her guest that made me actually think more deeply. Their comments were that we as Americans and America as a whole are “back”. Back to what exactly? If it’s just the glorification of Boobs, Beer, and Burgers then yeah we are indeed back, back to the same hypersexualized and hyper materialistic society we were in. Marriages are still in decline, having the means to support a large family is limited, and many men and women are going into self destructive or meaningless existences.
If the Super Bowl commercials are indeed an examination of culture in America then we are indeed back, to the other side of the pendulum, in which instead of a man pretending to be a woman eating a veggie (or bug) burger and drinking a IPA beer we’re back to a plastic shell of a woman slathered in makeup eating goy slop and drinking dishwater. The reason why I enjoyed the second one was not only because it had Peyton Manning and Shane Gillis, but because it had something we don’t see much of today: fraternity and community. Instead of going back to Boobs, Beer, and Burgers, we should instead go to Faith, Family, and Fraternity because those are the cornerstones of an actual healthy society and not this false sense of “normalcy” by having junk food and nude women being paraded.
To end this I want to ask you, the reader, this question: if we don’t fix the actual problems of society and instill ideas of God, Family, and Unity what’s going to happen in the next four or eight years when the mood of the nations shifts from one side of the pendulum to the other?
