THE CYBER SOCIETY SCENE
It all began with a man named Tom. Tom wanted to be your friend online. He wanted you to be friends with other friends online: your friends and my friends and all the people that you would or wouldn’t meet were to be your friend(s). Tom never met Mark but Mark had envisioned many of the things that Tom envisioned. Mark partnered with many of his, IRL, friends to make his vision into a reality. They were nerds by all standards wanting to make two things: money and friends. Combine the two and you have power. Something both of them sought as well. They made a movie cataloging their story and made beautiful images of their success out of Hollywood hopefuls. They created a “Cyber Society”. A place where everyone can go and not be themselves. A place where everyone can be themselves and pay for it in personalized advertisements and grim followers as they were. A place where misinformation became the norm and conspiracy theories were proved right.
Tom was swallowed up by Mark. But Tom left his mark. An undoable mark on our psyche’s that would forever be remembered as myspace. A place where privacy went to die and was instead replaced by a cyber scene. We wanted to be cyber seen; an entire generation more concerned with going viral and becoming the next big thing. Now we dance, we cook, we fish, we watch, we compose all in step with our smattering of peace and have stopped looking for perfect peace. Perfect peace casts out fear. It is not as the world gives. The world gives us peace mixed with fear which is anxiety. The world says, “do this and that and then you will have peace.” The peace that Jesus gives however, is perfect and permanent. Do you permanent anxiety or permanent peace? I think the answer is plain, however the method is murky.
We here at breakbreads believe the more you stick together, IRL, the happier we’ll be. Which is why we highlight members of our community that help bring us together. That is why we partner with organizations and supplier who are instituted to bring us closer together in the community. Could you imagine a day or even a week or so without your phone? Think about it! All your socials, all your cameras and videos, all your autobiographies and information campaigns put to bed. Bad? Good? Great, maybe even? That is our challenge to you today. To get a landline phone, perhaps, and use your camera/video-player/GPS when only necessary. What say you? Give the cyber society a break. Maybe even break it off completely. Carry your phone on you for phone calls and GPS coordinates only and take pictures on a disposable camera instead. I know what waits for you on the other end is joy and progress. Get the perfect peace friend. Not the world gives it, but as Jesus HIMSELF GIVES!!
