If people not want to read about other people’s lives, the intimate details, the sordid details, they would not be printed. If we refused to buy papers that posted stories about celebrities, or those that took delight in exposing other people’s weaknesses - and it isn’t just the red tops that do this - then perhaps things might change. We have become a nation of observers, sitting on the edge and judging. We can read the papers, watch TV, read twitter or blogs and see into other people’s lives, their hopes, their fears. As observers we can be detached, cynical, critical, or we can be sympathetic and concerned. We can condemn without having to put forward a better alternative. And in so doing, whatever we experience, we are experiencing it second hand. Whatever opinions we express, we are not putting ourselves on the line. It is safe. Safe pain, safe joy. It can engage us briefly, entertain us, give us topics for conversation, but if it changes us at all, it is only to make us more judgemental, more aloof, less involved. Jesus says: I have come that they might have life....
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:15:43 +0000
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