brittany - womanizer

have you heard brittany spears' new album? no? hehe. well, that's why i'm here, to keep you up-to-snuff on pop culture. here's what you need to know...it's actually really good. the production is quite sophisticated and the songwriting is clever...though the content is base. many of the songs are perfect for the club, and are getting heavy rotation on top 40 radio--which focuses on 12-17 year olds. her first hit is called 'womanizer' which bemoans the ways of modern men whose sole purpose in life is to 'score' with women. of course the irony is the song production and performance purposely court the over-sexualized attention which the lyrics condemn. 

the definition of hypocrisy these days goes something like: saying one thing, and doing the opposite of what we say. but there are certain exceptions to this rule . . . mainly for those who entertain us, we almost expect contradiction (though we claim to disdain it from people in our own lives). 

reality is more and more complex, isn't it?  seems like the thing we long for--someone/something we can trust--is also the thing we insidiously destroy with our own mixed sense of values. character is lost as we say we value integrity and undermine this value by the way we live and the things (especially entertainment) we consume. 

from my observations, truly spiritual people are not the most religious people at all. rather, spirituality is for those who do the hard work of connecting their hearts with their heads, so that their actions and their words are more and more synonymous. all of us are hypocrites in some area(s)of our lives. i think the question is are we willing to admit this and become "hypocrites in transition?" 

what's something you say you value . . . that you're no longer living out? how can you begin to change/transition?