(No, I do not know why this picture came out so small!)
If I had to point to one unique quality that describes this age we’re living in, I’d have to say it’s the appalling speed at which new idiocies are first coined, then adopted, and then enforced. If you don’t like people’s core beliefs now, just wait a few hours… and they’ll change.
Yes, I know I last posted this in 2021, really not that long ago. But it’s only gotten truer since then. I shudder to think of what another year might bring.
One thing I’m sure of: if God were as fickle as we are, there’d be no certainty that the sun would still be here tomorrow.
A lot of this, in my opinion, comes down to the effect of social media. Just one more reason I avoid social media.
Well, this is social media… kinda… (I wonder if that’s what’s happened to my viewer numbers).
It’s nothing like Facebook, etc. Such platforms seem to cultivate a mob mentality.
I don’t have much of a presence on FB… I get about one referral a day from there.
Like Unknowable2, I think Facebook and other similar social media do cultivate mob mentality engineered through “fact checking”, censoring and shadow banning.
Beyond that, if someone posts a “fact” that casts someone else in a dim light, the virtue-signaling can spread like wildfire. Since the beginning of these social media platforms, I’ve been concerned that they would be conduits for unverified, and inaccurate information, which can be exceptionally harmful. I’m not sure if anything can be done about it.
Without the social media et al, the regular nooze media would have to supply unverified and inaccurate information… Oops. They already do that.
Ultimately, the consumers of information have to learn to be discerning. When I was a child, if it was on the Huntley and Brinkley Report, you could trust that it was factual. Nowadays, I trust now of what I hear, and half of what I see.
People love to dish the dirt. If a preacher leaves his job, there will be speculation and unfounded suggestions of wrongdoing, as imaginations run wild. I mention this, because I’ve actually seen it happen. Maybe he just wanted a change of scenery, or he decided to get into real estate, or any number of other reasons; but no one even asks him why, anymore, before the speculation takes off. Sadly, such is the tenor of our times.
Now, enter social media, and gossip can become a weapon.
Fallen world: people love to believe the worst of each other.
When we become the false accuser of our brothers we put ourselves, behaviorally, in league with Satan.