House

I don't watch much TV. I like Monk and the Food Channel plus the occasional show on A & E, Discovery, Animal Planet, etc. I love the Lord but don't care much for Christian TV (admittedly, except for Billy Graham crusades, I haven't seen much of it in a number of years).

Right now, I am looking at, not really following, a show called "House" about an odd doctor. I saw bits of it now and then on my trips to Stanford with Donna. Funny thing that comes through even when you retain only bits and snatches of an episode... the premise is that people will tolerate almost any level of socially unacceptable behavior so long as the outcast gets results in what he does.

The show is no mirror for life, true of most of TV, but to an extent, people do tolerate oddballs if they do something valuable to society or to us personally. From the other side of the coin, social misfits often work to develop some special talent as a redeeming factor. This can be fairly harmless, but I am also considering how some very dangerous deviants have used it to do vast harm. Recall Hitler?

I'm way out on a tangent tonight... too much TV. I think I'll go back to reading Koontz mysteries. Meanwhile, I will remember we are all a bit strange in our own way and even the benign ones draw social censure now and then. It's nice to know someone loves you even when you aren't all together fitting the preferred mold.