Will Self (journalist) wrote this in an article in last week's Big Issue after trying to do a satirical act to get based around who runs the newspapers -
".....For them, news is a kind of manna shed by the heavenly screen, while opinion is merely the margarine spread on this unleavened daily bread. Who the god or gods responsible for disseminating this stuff is of little interest to the majority - because after all, if you don't like/believe what one website is putting out, you can simply click to the next."
But it made me think that actually we could substitute a lot of other words for "news", like 'church', 'marriage', etc and rewrite it a wee bit. We seem to live in a culture now where we let things just happen and if we don't like them, well we just switch over, change relationships, move to something that "speaks our language" better. Gone seem to be the days when we push and challenge, keep our leaders accountable, keep each other accountable.
He goes on to say that we have all become consumers which I think is often what we expect to happen in every aspect of our lives!
He does say some other things that I very much disagree with, but this did speak to me.
Also check out Stuff Christians Like blog about Grumbling and Let's Put The Kettle On blog about Famine and Michael. Well worth a read.
No comments:
Post a Comment