Mike S

I wouldn’t say they are not thoughtful. Perhaps I would say they are full of thought much like a leafbag is full of leaves in the fall, with all their variety of color and shape and size yet all detached and in a jumble and lifeless, and many of which are not even from the same tree.

"Rebecca Zorach [of Wired]. She wrote that medieval monasteries were the first internet. “Medieval Christians thought of themselves as connected to a greater consciousness, a community of souls, which was as real and powerful to them as cyberspace is to its denizens today."

"The age of information doesn’t simply mean that information will be the most important commodity, it means that everything will be looked at as information"
(Paul Brecht)

“So, what can be done, if anything? Not much. The Church must pass through this trial that will shake the belief of many, and even if this is not the final apostasy prophesied in the Catehchism, it is certainly a Western apostasy.”

Electric information environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as a spiritual substance. It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ.[7]
(Marshall McLuhan)

“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dostoevsky said, “if man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing, he believes in anything.”

Ideologies, science, machines, entertainments: all are meant to take the place of meaningful and purposeful action in the spirit.

First of all, it is a lack of reality. Demons use images, fantasy pictures, to tempt people into sin. Images are not real, though they are taken from parts of reality, put together in a way that is meant to pervert or invert its purpose. The rule of Antichrist and the False prophet will rely on media for their rule.

The end times are the zenith of totalitarianism, whether from private or state sources, since only one source or power is recognized and only one source actually functions. As of today, the state is largely a fiction as banks and media conglomerates rule without mercy.