29. …The glowing screens need a gargantuan diet in order to distract mankind and destroy consciences….
43. For some years now there has been a constant onslaught of images, lights, and colors that blind man. His interior dwelling is violated by the unhealthy, provocative images of pornography, bestial violence, and all sorts of worldly obscenities that assault purity of heart and infiltrate through the door of sight.
44. The faculty of sight, which ought to see and contemplate the essential things, is turned aside to what is artificial. Our eyes confuse day and night because our whole lives are immersed in a permanent light. In the cities that shine with a thousand lights, our eyes no longer find restful areas of darkness… To a large extent, humanity has lost an awareness of the seriousness of sin…
~ Cardinal Robert Sarah, excerpts from “The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise” (April, 2017).
Smartphone Gif Photo: Grizzly Street
Wow.
Boom. Exactly. When I first heard of the Orlando shooting, it made me think, (beyond copycat), was he de-sensitized by all the violence he sees on TV, the web, on screens?
It sure feels that way. We are so constantly hit with images that we no longer are shocked (so to speak) – I am, but maybe someone who is so disconnected to real life (by being constantly connected to on-line life) isn’t…
Yes. I think so Dale. Desensitized from what is right.
Bam 💥
so sad.
Oof, I’d love to send this to someone who really needs to do a self-check, but it’s unlikely he will do so in the near future. Always talking about ‘the other guy’ and missing the boat entirely. Addictions are like that, I think. Nothing more entrancing than an iPhone screen, I guess.
There is nothing more mezmerizing, I can attest to that.
Haha, not to me – it’s irritating to have all that info on something so tiny and hard to read without glasses. Half the time I forget to turn the damn thing on, and am inundated with messages the following day. Sigh. Technology. Whatcha gonna do? 😉 xo
Laughing. I get it Bela. I get it.
Amen!
When you do away with the supernatural, all that’s left is the unnatural.-G.K. Chesterton
Not recognizing the truth of sin and its resolution through penance, opens the door to endless psychoanalysis.
-Alan
A doom loop. Yes. Thank you Alan.