We must as Christians learn to live in the new digital reality. Much human potential for good thought and all-around goodness is being traded for the new magic. I shouldn't even say "is being traded", rather it has been traded. It is too late to go back. The barbarians are at the gate. The Turks have sacked Constantinople. Digital goths and heathens are run amok. Dark ages are upon us, lit up by tiny flashing lights. And we Christians were among the throng that opened the gates from within, welcoming the hoards of Thought-Stoppers. We even thought these digital savages could be used by us to our own religious ends. We'd convert the heathen, employ them in our armies, pillage old villages with new warriors, etc. Indeed, they have been used by us to our religious ends with great gusto, though God knows our religious ends and his religious ends rarely meet.
So we must learn to live in an age where people are willingly and enthusiastically making themselves stupider. We are giving away patience. We are casting off thoughtfulness. We have tossed slowness of speech overboard, bored as we were by its voice. We Christians and those around us have become and will continue to be less able, less clear and less human. The City has crumbled. Move on.
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