Monday, May 16, 2016

Social media are not social and do not produce lasting cultures. Biedenkopf.

"The process of increasing fragmentation of society is further increased by the electronic media.  Indeed, the so-called 'social media' are not social.  No true communities develop in them that are stable and can bear loads, no true camaraderie and no love of neighbor.  The social media are a way of removing boundaries.  As long as boundaries are missing, a culture, and the society in which this culture lives, are not durable.  They will die at some point in time.  This has happened many times before."


http://www.wiwo.de/politik/europa/kurt-biedenkopf-der-westen-ist-nicht-mehr-weit-vom-chaos-entfernt/12999954.html?share=fb

Verstärkt wird der Prozess mit der zunehmenden Fragmentierung der Gesellschaft durch die elektronischen Medien. Tatsächlich sind die so genannten sozialen Netzwerke nicht sozial. In ihnen entstehen keine Gemeinschaften, die stabil und belastbar sind, keine Brüderlichkeit und Nächstenliebe. Sie sind Formen der Entgrenzung. Solange es an Begrenzungen fehlt, sind eine Kultur und die Gesellschaft, die in dieser Kultur lebt, nicht nachhaltig. Sie gehen irgendwann ein. Das ist schon oft passiert.

Never heard of the author, Kurt Biedenkopf.  He seems to be google-able.  Maybe later...


I wonder.

We need the physical that orders us into individuals, families, homes, churches, towns and countries.   Then we have culture and then we have durability and then we have what we really want:  love. 

Social media.  Why do we want them and why do we get addicted to them? -- The dialogue is often good.

The relationships that have lasted for me were more those where we met also in person, and where we have a basic respect for the individual because of the love of Christ.  The love of God in Christ is fundamental to everything.  Dialogue without respect will also die.  





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