Cursed Times?

[JudyO]

Clips from a recent New Yorker article:                                               (People will become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming--Luke 21:26)

 

How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times by Jia Tolentino--October 7, 2019

 

 

"On the Internet, “cursed energy” no longer refers just to creepy images—the phrase has come to signify increasingly generalized feelings of anxiety and malaise.

We see Caribbean islands destroyed by hurricanes and look guiltily at our air-conditioning units; the Supreme Court ruled one way in Bush v. Gore and now Ivanka Trump is acting as a diplomat in North Korea’s demilitarized zone. I have never been able to interest myself too much in the idea that we are living in a simulation, and yet the idea of cursed energy does evoke a feeling that the simulation is breaking, and that something terrible is emerging from the breach.

Sam Biddle, who writes about tech for the Intercept, told me, “I think so much of the Internet feels like hell now that it just makes sense to blame it on the devil.”

These are quite obviously cursed times: …….more than a quarter of the birds in North America have disappeared since 1970; and children keep having to take to the streets to plead with our lawmakers to protect their lives. But it is hard—given the sheer extent of what is crumbling around us, and also the natural limits of our individual scopes of vision—to take in the fullness of contemporary cursedness all at once."

 

[Sheep]

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-we-came-to-live-in-cursed-times

 

Interesting perspective.

[Old]

Dickens said it, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,"  so now it is "It is the best of times, it is the cursed of times"  Hmmm, at least we know Dickens is not rolling over in his grave. 

[BenJepthah]

Reminds me of the conquest period in Josuah. The Canaanite Kings were first defeated by a sense of despair. 

[JudyO]

3 hours ago, BenJepthah said:

Reminds me of the conquest period in Josuah. The Canaanite Kings were first defeated by a sense of despair. 

Wow. I totally understand that.