How deep does the subversion go?

The stories that we are told from a young age encode the system of relations that represent our worldview. These influences shape what we find to be good, what we find to be beyond the pale, and what is considered to be normal, and what is considered to be foolish. We mimetically pick up on these behaviors, these values, and these patterns of action and being that are displayed in front of us in education, entertainment, news, and social media, and we manifest those out into the world.

A world built on Sex and the City, The Big Bang Theory, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, House, Bones, The Office, and social media algorithms, with news given by Fox, CNN, and the New York Times, is a world that encodes the misguided values and cultural practices of the elites into every aspect of our daily lives.

Most of what we have been given has been a bland fog of erotic materialistic ephemera, and we need something deeper. We need authentic engagement with reality. We need to be able to deal with our history honestly. We need stories that can afford us what is good, not slop that disarms the masses. We need to start telling better stories; we need to start living in what is true.

The stakes for this are civilizational. A self-absorbed mammon-worshipping society devoid of meaning has no root and bears no fruit. Once you realize almost all of us have been grafted into this structure in almost every interaction from a very young age, it can be hard to envision a world where healing is possible.

But hope is key. The darkness, no matter how deep it has penetrated into us, and no matter how hard it may try and how much power in the world may be given to it, will never overcome the light. We need to live in hope. Resurrection awaits.