I am Miley, I am Thicke, I Too Am Sick

In the first article I wrote about Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke's performance at MTV's VMAs, I argued from the standard of beauty. I judged the performance to be less than art because it was not meaningful nor did it add virtue to our society. Instead it exposed us as illiterate fools because we did not discern the song long before we saw the dance. In that article I wanted to offer a more secular response; examining ourselves as a society, appealing more to the ideals of excellence and intelligence that should exist in virtuous art and culture. Even though my argument may have pointed out (to those who received it well) some very important issues for us as a culture, the best we can do in response is to either do better or to dismiss it all together and see what happens next year. The article may provoke us to scan our children's iPods before we plug them into their ears. It may cause us, as a member of my previous congregation had done, to watch the Walton