Ruslan KD

Like they can no longer decipher

reality and so everything is black and white everything is binary everything is so polarized and so charged and you're either deifying charlie or you're demonizing charlie and it's like dude like hey let's turn the temperature down but i think this generation is cooked man i think they've consumed so much media and they've seen so many traumatic things that they're the cognitive distortion is binary black and white all or nothing thinking about every issue name an issue it's black or white

Israel's either the heroes or they're the villain.

That's it, no nuance, right?

And in your work, your line of work, and in my life as well, you start traveling and seeing, and you're like, wait, there's more nuance to some of these things, that these things are complicated.

They're not binary, that people are complicated, that we all have struggles and internal wars within our hearts that need to be redeemed and rescued, right?

And so I think that's where we're at as a people.

Like, I think as a people,

We're just cooked, dude.

Chronically online, average American spends seven hours a day passively consuming media.

Seven hours?

A day.

That's not working.

That's not learning.

That's just passively consuming media, right?

Whether that's YouTube, Netflix, fill in the blank, right?

That's almost 50 hours a week.

so you could find any story you want to tell to yourself but to your point what what story is true c.s lewis says how the christian story is the myth that's true that it's that it's transcends everything right by myth he just means the story that's true like it is it is transcendent in the story of jesus and what it's done to shape history and the good that it's caused um

I don't think there's anything like it.

So if you're not anchoring yourself in Jesus, you have no way to make sense of anything.