Daily Inspiration Quote by Francis Arinze

A cleric doesn t need to name the shows to land the point: TV is less a medium than a moral climate, and imitation is its quietest form of surrender. Arinze is warning about a global reflex to treat what looks normal on screen as what should be normal in life. The phrasing is deliberately pastoral not paranoid. "A tendency" suggests drift, not conspiracy; "around the world" frames it as cultural weather, crossing borders faster than any sermon.

The subtext is about authority. Television does not just entertain; it trains taste, attention, and aspiration. It offers ready made scripts for romance, status, conflict, and even spirituality, then rewards their repetition with social fluency. Copying TV culture is tempting because it is frictionless: you can borrow an identity, a joke, a way of speaking, without the slow work of becoming a person in community. For a clergyman, that is the danger, not merely the "content" but the formation: consumer desire in place of vocation, spectacle in place of interior life, and a constant present tense that makes tradition feel irrelevant.

"And that is not always a virtue" is a surgical moral qualifier. Arinze avoids puritanical denunciation; he concedes that some borrowing can be creative, connective, even liberating. The critique is aimed at unexamined mimicry, especially where TV exports a thin idea of freedom: freedom as choice among products, as public performance, as drama without consequence. In a world newly knitted together by screens, he is asking for a harder, older kind of literacy: the ability to watch without being rewritten.