I guesss that underneath all my resistance to the continuing seemingly one-sided negative treatment of online culture is the feeling that this view and analysis of online culture is rampant in the Church,  and that spells even darker days ahead as I search for meaningful work.  Heck,  I don’t even have “meaningless work” right now, and now that I’m out of the holiday season where the family festivities provided a kind of emotional cushion against some of the cruel realities of this,  I have been rather gloomy today.   Some of the hopeful prospects I thought I had have seemingly withdrawn into what seems an increasingly gloomy economic “wait and see”,  where few have much of anything in the way of resources to invest in growth or to begin to find things into which we need to pump new life. 

It was an exceedingly lonely day.