Ignorant and Decadent: TIME’s Most Popular

In whichever direction we turn our gaze, no matter how cursory our observation of the doings and sayings of the present generation, we cannot fail to be struck by the evidences of moral decadence which, in their individual lives no less than in their collective capacity, men and women around us exhibit. (Call to the Nations)

And so I felt when I had a look at TIME’s Most Popular Stories of the day. These articles, most frequently read by TIME.com readers, give a good general view of what society is interested in. The highlights of the top 25:

1. Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High
2. Japan’s Booming Sex Niche: Elder Porn
3. What the Gay Brain Looks Like
4. Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief
5. Will More Drilling Mean Cheaper Gas?
8. Can the Enemy Build a Super-Soldier?
10. How to Live With Just 100 Things
15. How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?
17. Are US Nukes in Europe Secure?
19. Rain Forest Tribesmen Just Want to Be Left Alone
24. More Sex Please, We’re French
25. How America’s Children Packed On the Pounds

I’ve been monitoring the Most Popular lists on TIME, CNN, and BBC regularly and there is obviously a great interest in any article that contains the word ‘Sex’. Note: Of course mixed among these excerpts were several articles that are actually intelligent.

It is also evident that things that are absolutely irrelevant are of interest to society, such as “How to Live With Just 100 Things”. In the Promise of World Peace it is stated: For ignorance is indisputably the principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples. Society is struggling to find meaning in life, and as it fails, ignorance prevails and society falls into these manifestations of foolishness.

We are now in a world spiritually destitute, morally bankrupt, politically disrupted, socially convulsed, economically paralyzed, writhing, bleeding and breaking up beneath the avenging rod of God. (SE)