Forgive Me: An Off-Topic Post — or Maybe It’s Not

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I JUST FINISHED watching the season premier of the new reality show on CBS following the Super Bowl [Yea, Saints!] — Undercover Boss, I think it’s called.  I was looking forward to it, after a sneak peek offered a few days ago on Oprah.  The show stirred thoughts about the responsibilitiy of writers in society — and TV-movie producers too — a responsibility that I think is often ignored in a society more devoted to escapist entertainment and profit rather than responsibility.

This show, in which a company’s CEO goes “under-cover” as a common laborer in his company for a week, illustrates how conscientious and hard-working many of a company’s front-line workers are — and how under-appreciated they are.  And one comes away wondering, is the huge disparity in pay scales between management and worker really justified?

I personally take writing as a very deep social responsibility.  We are the front-line guardians of society and culture.  If we ignore this responsibility, we may doom our country — wherever we live — to moral and social decline.

My viewing of this show follows my watching of Up In The Air last night at the local movie theater in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  There’s another creative production that puts us in touch with today’s realities.  Yes, it’s our connections to one another that matter most, even for those of us still “up in the air.”  We just can’t escape that.

In any case, I’d like to compliment the creative spirits behind this TV series and movie.  In our troubled times I hope we writers are beacons for a fundamental re-orientation of social thinking.  If that does happen, even to a small degree, some writers and creative people are fulfilling their responsibilities as custodians.

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