The Arrow's Path

I swear this priest was reading my thoughts .

I admit that I am always morbidly fascinating at watching #HashtagWars play themselves out on social media in particular. Social media is the perfect echo chamber for would be loudmouths, hucksters, race-baiters, trolls, and various other parishioners of what I call the First Self-Righteous Church of America-Twitter Diocese. Whether it be Confederate flags, LGBTQWERTY rights, or Zoos shooting random Gorillas, there is a constant cacophony of of faux-moral outrage that flows forth like a fountain of bilge from a sewer main explosion. Some of the causes are perhaps worthy of discussion, while some of them are just ridiculous topics that really amount to a cosmic waste of the Divine time. As of this writing, there has been a dreadful spat of police shootings of civilians, righteous indignation, and retaliatory shootings of police in Dallas and elsewhere. The sad goings-on has led to some ghastly racial tensions and near riots in both the real world and virtual world. The news this week

Sad .

Great stuff on the Universe and the brute fact of atheism .

The Wall Street journal recently did an interesting, if bizarre, experiment that is called the Red Feed/Blue Feed . Basically, it's premise being that Facebook, due to its scripting bots, tracks what news you look at, and caters to your political whims by putting things in your feed that the all knowing bots (peace and blessings be upon them) think might be of interest to you. So the Wall Street Journal bemoans, this is further polarizing our society because it pushes people into Facebook bunker mentality. I have been looking at this. I am not certain if this is a bad thing or not. I say that because on the one hand, I think it is good that we have a democratization of news sources, both liberal and conservative and anything in between. Back in the pre-internet days, it was the bias of the Big Three news networks and whatever the NY Times was into, which was basically all monochrome news from an elitist New York slant. They often ran all the same stories in (oftentimes) the exact

"Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue." -Care to Guess Who Said It?