There is a difference between privacy, vanity, and self-erasure. Modern performance culture collapses all three into one way of life, rewarding artificiality while hollowing out the person beneath it. What begins as image management can end in the loss of the self.
Excellent article Sarah. While reading the Tier One paragraph I was reminded of many of my high school teachers from 1967-1969 who were proud of their teaching profession and didn't share their personal lives with us. It garnered our respect for them, unlike the all to often headlines we read these days of middle school and high school teachers having inappropriate relationships with their students.
I feel our society is without moral leaders at the moment with neither political party presenting individuals for office that offer us a compelling reason to vote for them. I fear for the future of our country and for our grandchildren.
"He becomes, in a way, a soulless". A soulless. Yes! The text missed the phrase. Spoken better as a true and defined group. The soulless. Not the rock band. Perhaps a new political party. Or the current ones.
I can't help but believe that those caught up in this culture, are actually searching for love; specifically, for GOD, WHO IS LOVE. If you don't love yourself, who can love you? Your Creator, Almighty God, and His Son, also God, Who suffered the most violent torture and death so we could get to heaven! When this TRUTH is taught and lived from the cradle, miracles of acceptance and PEACE allow one to live in this broken world; because one knows, "I AM LOVED! "
Excellent article Sarah. While reading the Tier One paragraph I was reminded of many of my high school teachers from 1967-1969 who were proud of their teaching profession and didn't share their personal lives with us. It garnered our respect for them, unlike the all to often headlines we read these days of middle school and high school teachers having inappropriate relationships with their students.
I feel our society is without moral leaders at the moment with neither political party presenting individuals for office that offer us a compelling reason to vote for them. I fear for the future of our country and for our grandchildren.
I would say most of our leaders are in fact followers. Literal actors there to maintain an illusion. Puppets for the powerful.
Dream jobs. No military, no railroad, no construction trades, no agriculture, no life at sea?
"He becomes, in a way, a soulless". A soulless. Yes! The text missed the phrase. Spoken better as a true and defined group. The soulless. Not the rock band. Perhaps a new political party. Or the current ones.
Thoughtful article. I am pondering much about the Internet and how we should engage with it for my series on the Technological Christian.
I can't help but believe that those caught up in this culture, are actually searching for love; specifically, for GOD, WHO IS LOVE. If you don't love yourself, who can love you? Your Creator, Almighty God, and His Son, also God, Who suffered the most violent torture and death so we could get to heaven! When this TRUTH is taught and lived from the cradle, miracles of acceptance and PEACE allow one to live in this broken world; because one knows, "I AM LOVED! "
Very good article!