All social networks are full with groups and web sites with “light” content. PlayGround, VICE News and BuzzFeed are only a few examples of the great opinion leaders of our generation. In the age of the instantaneous information, we can’t escape from short and colorful videos explaining how the world works; and even if they can be helpful to quickly get to understand every-day matters of our lives, sometimes they indoctrinate also on which is (supposedly) the complete truth.
Moreover, part of the success of this “web-newsletters” has to do also with content unrelated to information. For example, a great deal of BuzzFeed’s content is only cook stuff, like the channel “Tasty”: providing empty information and feeding the seek for physical and immediate pleasure. This way, the networks only seem to perpetuate the lazy and thinking.
Why is it important for Christians to talk about how this kind of groups work and think? How is the digital world important for the real governmental systems and its plans oriented to the common good? Well, we can’t ignore that there are not two different worlds (the real and the digital), but only one world with different ways to express itself. The real confrontation for the instauration of a God-centered world has a stronger relation with culture and communications than with laws. Of course, it is important to repeal Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges; but it is necessary to also convince the real people about how this is true and good for their daily life.
All our work can be (or is being) sabotaged by the communication systems that are better and smarter not only to share their message, but also to present the Christian one without meaning for our generation. This is a weak spot that must be filled with perseverant work.
This text can be portrayed like a nearly useless defense of the Christian perspective, but its more than that. In the last few days, I have seen a message traveling constantly through Facebook: “Bad times create strong men; strong men create good times; good times create weak men; weak men create bad times…”. Are we living along a weak and empty generation, nursed by meaningless social media? Then we may be cultivating bad times.
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