Tim Tebow's treatment and career have shown us that the world operates by a truth that is counter to character, morality and reason. Rather than elevating miscreants, than making bad men good and good men better, the world tells us that in order to survive and thrive in this world, you must lower standards and become a miscreant. This is probably part of the reason why there seems to be a dearth of good men in the world today. Every incentive offered by the world discourages men from rising up.
Every organization venerates the status quo. In an organization where the brutish and boorish of men rise to the top, any man who acknowledges what is good and brave and true runs the risk of being smacked down. I also read on the internet today about how Rihanna won't date and doesn't like "the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring." Instead she said, "I like the risk, I like the edge. That's the thrill for me," only to paradoxically be beaten by boyfriend Chris Brown. When we do not defend people of good character, we in essence betray them.
When we do not choose people of good moral fiber, I believe one of two things happens. Some of them quit being good men and become indistinguishable from the rest of the barnyard riffraff. The rest withdraw completely and are no longer "on the market" as it were. They have no incentive to engage in society because it will spew them out of its mouth. These then just try to eek out an existence where they can and vanish ignominiously into history.
Our world constantly and consistently elevates and celebrates the miscreants and malcontents. Media outlets make heroes of protestors who are duplicitous and hypocritical because sensationalism sells. Entrepreneurs generate things to buy that create a rage and get emotions high. Very few people encourage reason and reasonable behavior. I find it highly ironic and entertaining that some of the people who talk most about the import of reason respond emotionally to things without looking at things from other angles than the one from which they are accustomed to seeing the world.
I am honestly not a fan of Tebowing. I don't like the public display of faith. As a child, I was taught to do so in secretly, that "the Lord who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly". What I protest is that a man who openly acknowledges his nothingness and the beneficience of a higher power is mocked, stripped, beaten, and left for dead.
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