"A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way. As long as we think that the next election might eliminate crime and establish justice or another scientific breakthrough might save the environment or another pay raise might push us over the edge of anxiety into a life of tranquility, we are not likely to risk the arduous uncertainties of the life of faith. A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she, acquires an appetite for the world of grace."
- Eugene Peterson
Monday, July 28, 2008
The New York Times has an interesting piece on Internet reading vs. traditional book reading.
Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest.
Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer here in this suburb southwest of Cleveland.
At least six hours! That's unfathomable! Anyway, the article says that at least the Internet forces kids to read and write while they're wasting time, instead of mindlessly watching TV. I guess that's good. To quote Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite, "You may as well do something while you're doing nothing."
