It’s social media. It is replacing human interaction in a wholly inadequate way.
D_Ethan_Bones on
The left will propose the same solution they ever did: import the third world en masse.
>She said that young people online “can talk to a lot of people at a very superficial level, but actually having those deep and meaningful connections with people is something that they’re missing out on,” especially after the covid pandemic.
The internet was thrust onto people as a substitute for the things that disappeared. The old fashioned internet where people interacted with people was torn down and replaced with the smartphone-era internet where vast swaths of humanity have all outsourced their thinking to the same few influencers, and then giant multitudes of people all look like they were all stamped out on the same half a dozen assembly lines.
>These include the weakening of social institutions like libraries;
Libraries are where young people *currently* go to congregate and do their recreation *because* the fitting places for them to be are all gone. This is why libraries aren’t quiet or peaceful anymore – they’re free cyber cafes.
There need to be neighborhood-level social venues, some for younger people and some for older people. What my town turned into after being a total business desert for 20 years was a local food industry that consisted entirely of drivethrus and pickups, as if dining rooms were banned by law. (More like priced out of the market by property taxes – it’s either small venue or no venue.)
The Irish pub the dance floor the dojo the pizza place are all distant memories from the 20th century, in the same geographic location.
Q: “where are people supposed to go”
A: “the internet”
-And then people are faulted at the individual level for going there, when all else is unreachable. It’s like criticizing us for not taking the train to work when the trains going through our town are only for freight.
>Logos believes the role of churches has often been overlooked in these discussions, despite traditionally being a centre of community and belonging.
Post local job openings, host singles meetups on weekends, cycle through other groups by age/sex on weekdays like “old ladies’ night.” Watch the place become standing room only. These are things the internet claims to do, but really just exploits for as much money as possible while leaving the exploited problem as unsolved as possible. Nobody talks about old fashioned job sites anymore because nobody associates them with jobs.
If your service says the same thing TV says *and then calls it a day*, people can just watch TV instead of hearing you preach. Too many churches in the 21st century have become this *and scarce little else,* they aren’t community centers anymore because they don’t carry any community functions anymore.
>Reverend Lovejoy asks a stained glass window: “what have I done to lose them?”
>Window responds: “what have you done to keep them?”
>The think tank’s polling has found only 5.5% of believers think the Scottish Government has been supportive of Chrisitan principles, with 81% concerned about the level of negative reaction Christians receive in Politics.
Scotland was bulldozed centuries ago, modern politicians there are the salt the English plant to prevent it from regrowing. Churches that charged cavalry into each other’s cannons a few hundred years ago are now all copypasting the same global narrative together – people don’t show up because there is nothing to find there.
Ive_Got_Sowell on
It’s almost like isolating young people during critical growth periods of their lives is a terribly destructive thing to do
BoltsFan126 on
This is one of those times I’m glad I’m old. We didn’t have unlimited calling or video games. You had to go out and walk or bike around the neighborhood to see who was out or who wanted to do something or whose house everyone was hanging out in.
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It’s social media. It is replacing human interaction in a wholly inadequate way.
The left will propose the same solution they ever did: import the third world en masse.
>She said that young people online “can talk to a lot of people at a very superficial level, but actually having those deep and meaningful connections with people is something that they’re missing out on,” especially after the covid pandemic.
The internet was thrust onto people as a substitute for the things that disappeared. The old fashioned internet where people interacted with people was torn down and replaced with the smartphone-era internet where vast swaths of humanity have all outsourced their thinking to the same few influencers, and then giant multitudes of people all look like they were all stamped out on the same half a dozen assembly lines.
>These include the weakening of social institutions like libraries;
Libraries are where young people *currently* go to congregate and do their recreation *because* the fitting places for them to be are all gone. This is why libraries aren’t quiet or peaceful anymore – they’re free cyber cafes.
There need to be neighborhood-level social venues, some for younger people and some for older people. What my town turned into after being a total business desert for 20 years was a local food industry that consisted entirely of drivethrus and pickups, as if dining rooms were banned by law. (More like priced out of the market by property taxes – it’s either small venue or no venue.)
The Irish pub the dance floor the dojo the pizza place are all distant memories from the 20th century, in the same geographic location.
Q: “where are people supposed to go”
A: “the internet”
-And then people are faulted at the individual level for going there, when all else is unreachable. It’s like criticizing us for not taking the train to work when the trains going through our town are only for freight.
>Logos believes the role of churches has often been overlooked in these discussions, despite traditionally being a centre of community and belonging.
Post local job openings, host singles meetups on weekends, cycle through other groups by age/sex on weekdays like “old ladies’ night.” Watch the place become standing room only. These are things the internet claims to do, but really just exploits for as much money as possible while leaving the exploited problem as unsolved as possible. Nobody talks about old fashioned job sites anymore because nobody associates them with jobs.
If your service says the same thing TV says *and then calls it a day*, people can just watch TV instead of hearing you preach. Too many churches in the 21st century have become this *and scarce little else,* they aren’t community centers anymore because they don’t carry any community functions anymore.
>Reverend Lovejoy asks a stained glass window: “what have I done to lose them?”
>Window responds: “what have you done to keep them?”
>The think tank’s polling has found only 5.5% of believers think the Scottish Government has been supportive of Chrisitan principles, with 81% concerned about the level of negative reaction Christians receive in Politics.
Scotland was bulldozed centuries ago, modern politicians there are the salt the English plant to prevent it from regrowing. Churches that charged cavalry into each other’s cannons a few hundred years ago are now all copypasting the same global narrative together – people don’t show up because there is nothing to find there.
It’s almost like isolating young people during critical growth periods of their lives is a terribly destructive thing to do
This is one of those times I’m glad I’m old. We didn’t have unlimited calling or video games. You had to go out and walk or bike around the neighborhood to see who was out or who wanted to do something or whose house everyone was hanging out in.