If there is a hell it may look a lot like YouTube. I go to the website to look for videos I can use in class. On the right side of the web page, next to the video I have searched for is a column labeled "related videos". I'm watching the video I selected, while finding the related ones enticing. I finish watching the chosen video and click on another one. I watch that one with another video in my peripheral vision. I click on that one. ...
An hour later I close out my web browser because I have to go teach. As I head towards the classroom I question whether what I had been involved in has enhanced my existence in any way. So quickly distracted from my goals, I haven't completed what I had set out to do. But I've watched a lot of videos.
I know the classical version of hell is a burning torment with wailing moans and grinding teeth. But I think there is a hell of distraction as well. I distract myself by my own inquisitive nature with material designed to entice and pull me into the grasp of the web master. I strongly question what I have consumed. More times
than not I exit YouTube and find that I am left with a stuffed curiosity and a starved sense of fulfillment.
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So interesting. Well put! I preached about this last night! I could have used your example had I read it sooner!!
Keep writing!
Dios te bendiga!
Barb Mikrut
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