Man could depend on his own reason to find out truth. Modernism taught that special revelation given by God in His Word was no longer needed to know universal, objective truth. Why is this? It is because our culture has by-and-large been affected with the thinking of postmodernity.įrom the age of the “Enlightenment,” 1550 AD to the 1940’s, the West was largely influenced by the thinking of modernity. If you were to walk up to anyone in America and ask them if “beauty is in the eye of the beholder?” I would venture to guess that more than 9 times out of 10 they would tell you that it is. The point of the TV episode is that culture defines what the norm of beauty is. The beautiful blonde is supposed to be the ugly one. All “normal” people in this mythical culture look like that. Up to this point the camera hadn’t shown the faces of the medical staff… but now it shows that they have hideous, grotesque pig-like faces. Obviously the facial surgery hadn’t worked. They take the bandages off and say in horror, 'no change-no change at all!' The camera then shows that the patient is actually a beautiful woman! The young lady feels her face and screams. The episode shows a young woman with her face all bandaged up and some doctors and nurses about to unveil her face. On November 11, 1960, a popular TV series named “The Twilight Zone” aired an episode titled “Eye of the Beholder”.
