Excellent; just excellent. What a succinctly beautiful and common sense reminder of personal responsibility this piece was. I’ll include this verse from Galatians (5:22-23), which your writing brought to my mind on this bright and sunny Sunday morning (at least it is in Georgia, USA).
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
"We support their cause, the destruction of civilisation, when we succumb to the lure of the modern magic lantern show; hours upon hours of meaningless entertaining phantasmagoria flashing across pixilated screens as our thumbs ache with pressure points and our eyes grow weary, and yet we find we can’t break away."
That's a great line. Joy truly is found in the real world, in reality. One of my great joys is surfing since it provides an amazing connection to the ocean, the originator of all life. And it is ~2 hours of pure presence in reality, no screens.
How long would these radical ideologies last if the internet died tomorrow and we could all only live in the local?
Excellent; just excellent. What a succinctly beautiful and common sense reminder of personal responsibility this piece was. I’ll include this verse from Galatians (5:22-23), which your writing brought to my mind on this bright and sunny Sunday morning (at least it is in Georgia, USA).
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
Now I’ll go put my phone down.
"We support their cause, the destruction of civilisation, when we succumb to the lure of the modern magic lantern show; hours upon hours of meaningless entertaining phantasmagoria flashing across pixilated screens as our thumbs ache with pressure points and our eyes grow weary, and yet we find we can’t break away."
That's a great line. Joy truly is found in the real world, in reality. One of my great joys is surfing since it provides an amazing connection to the ocean, the originator of all life. And it is ~2 hours of pure presence in reality, no screens.
How long would these radical ideologies last if the internet died tomorrow and we could all only live in the local?
And yet I need this magical lighted box to access thus profoundly true essay. Oh, the irony. Happy to have found you.
Ahh well therein lies the rub, doesn't it? :D
Happy to have you here.
Great article. Actually brought tears to my eyes when I read the CS Lewis quote. Thank you.