Oprah leaving network television occupies the same level of importance as the United States involvement in Afghanistan... food crises in our cities ranks with Lady Gaga's latest confection...
This is what happens when a society builds its house on sand, or in this case, materialism. When you can't buy as much (or anything at all) it feels as if something is missing. So you fill in the void with what passes for culture; voyeuristic news stories of Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga's infections...er, confections, Oprah's fake tears. Can we sift through the abstractions and find ourselves at the bottom?
What are we, as a people, anyway? All I know is that we are something new. Too much information is being forced onto brains designed to hunt, explore, and commune.
...But Don't Hate the Sinner.
This is what happens when a society builds its house on sand, or in this case, materialism. When you can't buy as much (or anything at all) it feels as if something is missing. So you fill in the void with what passes for culture; voyeuristic news stories of Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga's infections...er, confections, Oprah's fake tears. Can we sift through the abstractions and find ourselves at the bottom?
What are we, as a people, anyway? All I know is that we are something new. Too much information is being forced onto brains designed to hunt, explore, and commune.