Growling at my TV: The problem is not loneliness among American young men--and not phones or games. It is racism among them. Let us not invent another trope to avoid talking about the actual pathology in our society.
Next Haass and Goldberg talk about getting people off phones and into houses of worship: the essence of conservative wishful nostalgia that ignores the role of the evangelical church as a major force of the fascism and racism in America today.
@jeffjarvis Were they not alive during the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda? Did anyone think the problem was loneliness among Serb nationalist extremists? Were people in Rwanda lonely before hacking their neighbors to death?
It"s usually demonizing the "other", and blaming the "other" for taking what they've decided should be rightfully theirs.
@jeffjarvis A phone provides the user access to information that they can judge for themselves as credible. A house of worship only provides a one-way flow of information designed to keep worshipers in a single line of thought to maintain control and thus power.
Can we allow people to think for themselves? Get an education? Discuss issues in groups?
We will not go back to the Dark Ages.
@jeffjarvis There's a growing progressive movement in Christianity so why not redirect people there? The problem is most of the evangelicals have turned agains the true and biblical Jesus and his service to the poor and downtrodden.
@jeffjarvis Poignant as always, and I couldn’t agree more. And I truly hate that so many of the worlds problems are being blamed on religious belief, or lack of a specific religious belief by those complaining. Especially when religion is the reason for so many atrocities throughout history, I don’t understand how so many conservatives seem to think it is also the solution to everything and anything… Because religious institutions have such a great history with being fair and inclusive. Is there any wonder that people like me, just can’t stand organized religion anymore.
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