The New Testament speaks terrible things about something translated as "the world." Again and again we hear of it as a society of liars and killers, of brainwashed and arrogant men who parrot the gibberish and lurch into the snares set for them by demonic powers. The resulting picture is of a great, roaring machine of idiocy…
–David Elliot, writing in the July/August issue of Touchstone
That last image is perfect, and it certainly describes our cultural environment, as defined by the media and entertainment–and all too many of our intellectuals and quasi-intellectuals. I don't know if the world, in the biblical sense, is worse than it used to be, but technology certainly makes it louder and more invasive of one's interior life.
Last night my neighborhood lost electricity for thirty or forty minutes. I was alone in the house (not counting animals), and I found myself rather enjoying it and thinking that I should unplug myself from the electronic world more often. Yes, I know it's funny that I'm saying that in a blog post.
Light On Dark Water 
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