Give us this day our daily PB sandwiches
RedEye in fact spiritually, intellectually bankrupt. Promotes vapid snarkiness, sophomoric punditry, and the consumption of sugary alcoholic beverages that cost as much as a month's worth of peanut butter sandwiches (made with natural peanut butter and wheat bread). A publication that advocates subduing one's aching lonely soul with entertainment gossip, alcohol and "partying" (that inevitably leads to regrettable contact with a stranger's genitals) perpetuates unhappiness and diverts the public's attention from more noble, useful, or nutricious and delicious pursuits, a la peanut butter sandwiches.
Peanut butter on whole wheat bread is a complete protein and packed with fiber and healthy fats. And did we mention it is much more satisfying than flirting with strangers in bars? But peanut butter does not sell papers. Even if those papers are free. Sex sells, as they say.
So who pays for the paper? The advertisers: dating services, bars and clubs. And what are they really selling? The readers of RedEye. Human trafficking, even of this sort, is disagreeable.
Listen to Pope Benedict XVI:
Read the complete Encyclical, Deus Caritas Est at the Vatican website.The contemporary way of exalting the body is deceptive. Eros, reduced to pure "sex", has become a commodity, a mere "thing" to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself becomes a commodity. This is hardly man's great "yes" to the body. On the contrary, he now considers his body and his sexuality as the purely material part of himself, to be used and exploited at will. Nor does he see it as an arena for the exercise of his freedom, but as a mere object that he attempts, as he pleases, to make both enjoyable and harmless. Here we are actually dealing with a debasement of the human body: no longer is it integrated into our overall existential freedom; no longer is it a vital expression of our whole being, but it is more or less relegated to the purely biological sphere. The apparent exaltation of the body can quickly turn into a hatred of bodiliness. Christian faith, on the other hand, has always considered man a unity in duality, a reality in which spirit and matter compenetrate, and in which each is brought to a new nobility. True, eros tends to rise "in ecstasy" towards the Divine, to lead us beyond ourselves; yet for this very reason it calls for a path of ascent, renunciation, purification and healing.
posted by The UO at 4:49 PM
4 Comments:
Well, I agree about the spiritually damaging properties of the RedEye.
But you're setting up peanut butter sandwiches and casual sex as a sort of either/or proposition? Hmm...
I agree that sex with strangers is a bad thing. But what about merely making out with strangers? Because I think that's okay. I'm not sure I trust 70 year old virgins in Rome to make these distinctions.
Kid News was awesome. I just now realized that the target demographic of Kid News is now the target demographic of the RedEye. How far this once promising generation has fallen...
The previous poster would like to identify himself by the name "Rory".
By the way, speaking of screwed up young people (I mean REALLY screwed up)didja hear about the "troubled teen" who shot up the gay bar then killed a lady and a cop and got killed himself? Would be your run of the mill this planet is descending into the depths of Hell sort of news item, but then I happened upon the killer's "Myspace" page (Myspace=creepy and incomprehensible webpages that look like the Internet looked when the majority of its users were five years old)
http://www.myspace.com/jakejekyll
If you can decode a damn thing any of these kids are saying, they're all speaking mournful words of elegy for their psychopathic buddy, with barely a word of notice for the people he killed and maimed. My favorite is this one:
i dotn understand why you would do that but i know u must of have a reason
How's that for moral relativism? Her friend goes on a shooting spree and while she "dotn understand" it, he "must of have a reason". He wants to kill gay people but you know who his friends would say the real bigot is? Me. Because I condemn him for it. He was obviously doing what the right thing was for *him* you might not do the same thing in his situation but he was just doing his own thing so nobody has the right to judge.
(Beats forehead against the wall)
Love,
Rory
This is good.
Let's see....Red Eye or Pope. It is so hard to choose who to trust for my spiritual health.
Really.
I'm Baptist.
;-)
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