We live in a society where life is cheap and easily discarded, yet the common worth of an individual is valued in dollars, power, pleasure, and fame.
A society where compassion has not been cultivated, reason has not been taught, anger has been unleashed, and hope has been lost.
We live in a culture where communication is no longer on our lips, but is spread 24/7 through a few finger taps on a touchscreen. Where our ears are no longer open, yet expressing ones self has become the highest virtue. Where free speech is only tolerated when it is politically correct, and then only if no one takes offense.
Where most despair that they have no voice, yet the ability to self-publish in multiple media formats is greater now than at any point in history.
We live in a society where we are no longer guided and grounded by principles, but enslaved by party, policies, and platforms.
Where we are afraid of living and dying alone, and yet spend most of our waking hours interacting with a handheld liquid crystal display.
We live in a world that desperately wants to feel alive, and to know real unchanging truth. A world that desires a purpose to pursue, a path to follow, a cause that will unite.
If only there were such a purpose, a path, a cause. If only there were a truth that generated true life. If only there were a cause to unite us.
If someone were to stumble on such a solution to what makes this society so sick, I wonder if he or she would actually, intentionally live it out? Share it?
Or would that person only bring it out one day a week to play with it, then pack it away and guard it; so that they could play with it again in seven days?
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