Culturally, the loss of myth has been devastating for our culture, and for youth especially. It has enslaved them to social media. And their parents and their grandparents very quickly follow them. It stifles conversation, and the example of civilised, informed, respectful exchanges is pretty rare to find in the news today among our leaders. We’ve been taken over by algorithms in social media. I’d recommend a documentary called The Social Dilemma. It’s made up of interviews and information from the leaders of the Silicon Valley, the young wizkids in their 20s, who 30 years ago or less set up Facebook and Twitter and the whole social media. And they, like the scientists after the atomic bomb, are now asking themselves: What did we do? What have we let loose? And what they say is you can’t blame this person or that person or that company or another company. It’s more of a problem than that. The problem is that it’s a force that has been generated that makes immense amount of money, which doesn’t just influence us, it actually shapes us.
( Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 3, Laurence Freeman )
