“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”

— Susan Sontag

@Moondeer and I now remember this was a quote… soooo… too much information on my part >.<

@Moondeer Indeed, an important point.

@thisness it occurs to me that perhaps we have shifted our motivations for photography without noticing how our motivations for community shifted along. What I wouldn’t give to have face to face conversations with someone. The world wants me reduced to and consumed via memes.

@Moondeer Yes, so called social media has changed everything without anyone really noticing and going ‘hang on a minute!’ Our motivations for so many things have morphed out of all recognition. I’m saddened to hear of your lack of face to face interactions, for there is no substitute.

@thisness side note: score a point for MB drawing some of my head out. It hadn’t occurred until later that I’d arrived at the same conclusion separately when I was formulating this Twitter thread

It isn't that we need more churches … or more church attendance. What we need is more communal identification … restore that inclination to preserve as precious pictures of community, where it has been supplanted by social media induced idolatry of the selfie.

@Moondeer Ah ha! Yes. The community aspect of church-going is almost always overlooked in contemporary critiques of religion. I would wager that community equals, if not exceeds, actual religious belief in the reasons for attendance.