Analyst's note: A number of years ago I worked with a long-time friend and associate within the intelligence commuity to explore the developing conundrum of the explosion of information being accompanied by an implosion of literacy and meaningful knowledge.
Elizabeth Scalia, the author of this article treats of much more, and frames it in profound faith and beauty. She does this while giving much needed insight to survive the on-going battles to save our nation, ourselves, and our families. I highly recommend you read the entire original source. Enjoy!
Then please go to work ... now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country.
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[....] So comfortable are we with interactive technology that we barely notice the electronic eyes on every corner watching us as we walk or drive. Algorithms are used to track our every move: what we are reading, where we are vacationing, and what spiritual or medical direction we are seeking out. Yet we shrug them off because they so helpfully recommend what next to do with our lives.
Miracle and wonder, yes, and yet instead of looking up at a nighttime sky full of movement and light and infinite depth, we keep our heads down. We can no longer see that sky for the artificial illumination we mistake for light. But no matter; it is empty of interest. We have pierced its boundaries and walked the stardust. Having been there, done that, we’ve narrowed our exploration to whatever we can see through our five-inch screens.
Informationally, the world is ever-broadening, but our interests continue to narrow as we close in on ourselves. In our reading, our entertainment, our news venues, our social media, our political involvements, we seek out echo chambers we may depend upon to repeat us back to ourselves in a reassuring loop, with dissenting ideas continually pruned away for the sake of purity. Settled within virtual enclaves of the like-minded, we bask in an illusion that most sensible people think as we do, and when we are forced to venture out beyond our unsullied orthodoxies and ideologies the world feels increasingly dangerous and disordered, and we cannot wait to get back to our safe zones, which are really ourselves.
[....] Self-idolization is a natural by-product of the instrumentalization of our age, and it is weakening us. The GPS destroys our sense of direction; social scientists cripple our instinctive knowing. The world says True North is a relative concept, and so whatever path one takes is the right one—the path to the All-Knowing Me, who knows nothing and is stranded and alone, and weak.
A look at the headlines is enough to know that these are the days of bullying and idols—of menace and braggadocio, browbeating and constraint. We see it in authority seeking to control; we see it in media and moralists who pester us into mental submission; it lives within us when we oust the theologically untaught or ideologically confused among us, and settle for our own comfortable understanding.
[...] We need to look up, again, if we are to become strong enough to shake off our own tendencies toward idolatry, and fend off the hectoring bullies. We need to gaze starward, and beyond, into the vastness of the One who created everything by the full-out intention of his “yes,” and then trust in the rightness of that intention with all our being. To face the coming battles we will need to look far beyond “a distant constellation, that’s dying in a corner of the sky” and grow strong, again, through the paradox of dependence and surrender. [....]
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Some of the articles you might consider in order to gain meaningful knowledge relative to our U.S. national security include, but are not limited to the following:
DHS Illegally Censored Whistleblower ... Big Time
U.S. Government Now Run By Radical Revolutionaries
What Ever Happened to the Need for Eternal Vigilance?
Impact on U.S. National Security: Whistleblower Censored by DHS
Definition of courage - a much needed brutally frank discussion
You say solutions are needed? Consider 'We The People Stimulus Package'
What went wrong in America that leads to the lack of U.S. national security?
DoD to Court Martial Christian Soldiers Who Share Their Faith
Stunning insight into the on-going U.S. national-security fraud regarding Islam
Exposed: Saudi National Connected To Boston Marathon Bombing Massacre/Jihadi Terrorist Attack
Al-Qaeda Theorist Calls for Targeting Americans for 'Mass Slaughter'
Perfidy and Betrayal: Madison Vs Obama
Shocking Documented Interview regarding 'The Basics of Islam'
See why America must stand with Truth
U.S. receives obligatory warning: Al-Qaida hit-squads coming
ALERT-There really is a Traitor our U.S. Whitehouse and more!
Federal Gov't Preparing for U.S. Economic COLLAPSE & follow-on violence
Unfit for Duty: Obama's Pick For CIA is a known converted MUSLIM!
New al Qaeda 'shocking' threat against U.S.
If They Come for Your Guns, Do You Have a Responsibility to Fight?
Foreigners from Islamic Countries Disappearing from U.S. military Bases -- 'They Are Sleeper Cells'
