Saturday, June 23, 2007

Article Idea

Article Title: "The Acids of This Age"
Article dealing with the forces that undermine faith of modern man.
1. Derision
2. Cynicism
3. Freud (suspicion)
4. Confusion

Other forces include mobility and busy-ness, leading to increased alienation.
What do moderns need most? Hope, says Ellul.
Nov 4, 1985

If I made a list today, would these be the same "acids" eroding hope? Superficiality would have to be on the list. Relativism also. And how universal are these elements? Is this a middle class white list? What would be on a list for Native Americans? For blacks? Hispanics? A Marxist would ask why there is no comment on economic pressures and unjust systems.

In the inner city, murder is the number one cause of death amongst young black males. Why? Because there is no hope of getting out, no hope of a better future. This absence of hope has to be a hard place to be.

What is the mindset for those in Central America, Southeast Asia, Ethiopia or Eastern Europe? Hopeful or hopeless? Alienation and despair, grim realism or cheerful optimism?

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