Distortion

By Kurt Hock

Spectrum analysis really states that all things are possible. This does not have much to do with a right and positive decision, nor a wrong and negative decision at any particular moment in our lives. However, a particularly bad moral decision and a particularly good moral decision have as profound an affect on our lives as an accumulative weigh-in on a person’s good or bad merits. Simply put: our actions dictate where we land on the spectrum between notions and behaviors acquainted with evil and ideas which are divine and as God would have it: loving.

In comes distortion. We are all free to align ourselves with any type of persuasion we want. At this point we have entered the world of malleability. Our culture of capitalism is keenly aware of this state of neediness and is the very reason for media manipulation and the cause for its reprehensibly early start on the collective minds of our nation’s youth.  Advertising agents, lobbyists, and politicians are very aware of the powerful force of persuasion. It’s a force prone to distortion.  It appeals to our most dangerous vices:  vanity, greed, distrust, false righteousness, warped sexuality and false love.  Mixed and confused messages are the goal.  Distortion creates oceans of space for misguided judgment and, of course, misconstrued truths. The goal is simple: create insecurity and uncertainty.

Keeping our serenity demands we steer clear of these dangerous shoals and to seek in all our affairs the greater “good” and to understand clearly how distortion seeks to consume us.

I have worked at this job, which has transformed into a vocation, for 9 years. I am witness to the miracle of positive change each hour I’m at work.  The direction our school has moved since I’ve been here has focused on safety. And daily we assist in the difficult yet extremely rewarding work of helping young people to fulfill their potential while being mindful and very in tune to the raw feelings and stressed emotions of each student. I now work in a very different school then the one I began to work in 9 years ago. And I expect the school nine years from now to be very different from what it is today, because we are always testing and changing.

The distortion is this: The Family Foundation School just is not the place that its detractors say it is. The school runs on a deep level of accountability. The school has and continues to transform itself and to operate at the highest level of professional care for it students and for the community.  This school is bound to honesty and carries on, in search of truth, today and everyday.

I definitely do not condone the serious extortion which paints a different picture on the internet. Again, distortion is a tool to create doubt and confusion. God asks that each of us rise above it.