I've long been confused about your idea that digital "retrieves" this or that (in this case, religion). One of the most obvious effects with new digital media is a sort of ping-ponging, attention-span reducing, Year Zero / eternal now mentality, where only the meme barrage of the latest current times exists in one's ever-narrowing perception. I think this applies even when you count all the content (should your filter bubble include it) about remembering the memes from 2022, or the 90s aesthetic, or the 50s cigarette commercials...to me it's all situated in a context-free incoherent space with everything else from all time. Has the "renewal of the interior" phase just not happened yet? Are all the teens who can't spell, mesmerized on tiktok all day, simply the nascent acolytes of the cyborg theocracy -- do their brains have to be zapped into a primordial state first before they can be re-indoctrinated into the coming new religion?
Not sure what you mean by “hang in the balance”. As long as one mass or Divine Liturgy is offered by a validly ordained priest, Jesus is Emmanuel. Maybe you mean end times? That’s what a lot of us feel in our bones.
Totally incomprehensible
I've long been confused about your idea that digital "retrieves" this or that (in this case, religion). One of the most obvious effects with new digital media is a sort of ping-ponging, attention-span reducing, Year Zero / eternal now mentality, where only the meme barrage of the latest current times exists in one's ever-narrowing perception. I think this applies even when you count all the content (should your filter bubble include it) about remembering the memes from 2022, or the 90s aesthetic, or the 50s cigarette commercials...to me it's all situated in a context-free incoherent space with everything else from all time. Has the "renewal of the interior" phase just not happened yet? Are all the teens who can't spell, mesmerized on tiktok all day, simply the nascent acolytes of the cyborg theocracy -- do their brains have to be zapped into a primordial state first before they can be re-indoctrinated into the coming new religion?
Not sure what you mean by “hang in the balance”. As long as one mass or Divine Liturgy is offered by a validly ordained priest, Jesus is Emmanuel. Maybe you mean end times? That’s what a lot of us feel in our bones.
God bless you, James.