Say it isn't so...!
Occasionally you run across something interesting and well-said online.
Click here, read it, and tell me what you think. Comment, discuss, that is.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
posted by Unknown @ 9/24/2005 12:03:00 PM
3 Comments:
I guess you can take this view about anything. There is good and bad in all things (creations of man, by man, for man). It really comes down to the use of such tools. I can get poor information from any source and I can get excellent information from any source. You have to look at the motivation behind the tool and the motivation of the user. Do I live my life differently than my parents at my age? Heck yes! Part of that change is the way I use the Internet and computers to do the things I like to do. Can anyone make a value judgment on what I do? Yes. Is this person looking for a utopia or a lost “the way it used to be”? One tool cannot be all things to all people. I like to think that the use of the Internet for me is great! I keep in closer touch with my sisters and family in different time zones. I can follow sports that are not covered by the USA media (cycling for one). I can get free information on world events without having to buy several world newspapers. I like what the Internet is today. Can it be better? Yes! Can it be worse? Yes! It is dangerous to get dependant on one tool and use only one tool for information and entertainment? Yes. Did TV ruin America? I think I heard similar thoughts expressed when TV was coming out. Maybe it has become this way now with the so-called reality shows. It is up to each person to see, feel, find what they want in the Internet. My penny. -Peace Stephen
Thanks for your penny Stephen...glad you didn't give your two bits! (kidding, kidding!) I just thought the site was a humorous take on the idol worship we (we = people who participate in American/Western culture) give to the Internet. We shouldn't expect anything less of something that Al Gore invented, though!! :-)
I hope the author of the site continues to work out the implications of his/her discovery. She obviously used to idolize the Inernet. This is the way of all idolatry. We begin infatuated and end up scornful.
The next step is to realize how many idols our culture sets up for us, seeping into our psyche almost invisible to our mind but devastating to our soul.
But if we stop there, we risk becoming anti-social. There's good and bad in every culture. The problem is not our culture. The problem is us. We are idolaters by nature (fallen nature that is).
It doesn't matter that we live in this time, place, culture, family, whatever...it doesn't matter, we're simply sunk! Left to our own devices we'll turn anything and everything into an idol.
As we realize this, then we realize the need to take on His nature, the way of the cross, in EVERYTHING! (Not just those areas we recognize as problems).
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