The following is the list of the top ten hot social network trends for this morning. Just curious at the descending priority list of people's interests and concerns. The Greek Crisis is in the relegation spot as the one least commented on.
Now I don't want to become all preachy, doomsday and grumpy, but is there a fascination with the emphemeral and transient here, and an avoidance of the stuff that concerns rather more than the fortunes and failings of footballers, who aren't likely to need payday loans?
However, given a recent immersion in the world of Qoheleth for my own good, astringent and uncomfortable as his observations are, I'm not surprised he is described by one scholar as the gentle cynic.
And on that note, I hesitate only slightly to suggest that enigmatic phrase "Vanity! Vanity! All is Vanity!" could stand as a cautionary comment on the fast turning temporal and semantic kaleidoscope that is social networking in an increasingly techno-relating society. The same Qoheleth raises the stakes when he says "God has put eternity in human hearts", and "God is in heaven so let your words be few." Whatever else we might do to acknowledge or ignore the reality of the transcendent God, to cherish our humanity, face our mortality and make peace with our finitude, it seems we are way past any possibility of letting our words be few..myself and this blog included!
I leave you with the list of captured concerns in Current Trending for 11.31 this morning..... and ask which of them have universal, eternal or even life affirming significance?
- Didier Drogba
- Robin Gibb
- Fernando Torres
- Part Time Jobs
- Fibre Optic Broadband
- Euromillions
- West Ham
- Payday loans
- Robert0 Di Matteo
- Greek Crisis
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