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Felix R Savage's avatar

"Diversity is our strength" is ironically true but not in the way they think it is. What Screwtape et al really hate is diversity of loyalties. In the days of nations, each with its own character and prejudices, people could never have been sucked into these global networks of sin. But the internet has come close to abolishing the nations. Bad actors and bad ideas within every nation can now join up like drops of vomit running together.

To make matters worse, evil has a built-in advantage in networked spaces. Good doesn't seek social support for its ideas, because good already has support in God. The good look to heaven while the bad look to each other, always and everywhere searching for accomplices within human social frameworks to prop up their (ultimately futile) stand against the Eternal. So evil has an ineradicable advantage in forming networks... and now, it has the technology to create them on the global scale.

The silver lining is that the internet can also be used in the way it was meant to be used, as a communications tool, to bring together the remnants of Christendom, which used to coexist comfortably with national differences, but will have to look different in this post-national era: truly global, and yet as always, a body not a network.

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Joanofbark's avatar

Excellent extrapolation of Screwtape’s days of yore into our current digital realm. Think the totality of sin is still equal to the sum of it’s parts, revealing a stunning array of fractions reverberating within the digital matrix. Agree that the appearance of buy-in poses a significant challenge to evil, due to the refractive nature of sin upon confrontation.

Am thrilled at your prospects of becoming a fly in the proverbial ointment! Can only hope that you will aspire to becoming a globopsycho’s worst nightmare.

As they slowly defile our warm and fuzzies, cute and cuddlies, austere and revered, we can continue to dismantle their illusions with a stark assessment of reality, branded with ubiquitous truth.

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