Just a Book Review

The Chaos Scenario, by Bob Garfield, is a celebration of huge social change in the collapse of the funding base for the last several centuries of newspapers, and the last several decades of movies and television.

The power has moved, Garfield says, from the old ivory towers to the consumer-driven communications, just like this one. He's right. In huge terms.

To touch and relate this to the news, the current scandal (taking its place in the long, long line) concerning Catholic power structures and pedophiles is an enormous example. To use Ireland as a microcosm, it only takes a minute for credibility to evaporate. No matter how much history, tradition, rationale, and articulate re-hashing is offered, credibility is the only "coin of the realm" that can preserve a future.

Spin-offs?????

First, EVERY proclaimer of religious truth and claimer of authority now has the issue of credibility, at the top of the list.

Second, if there was any doubt about consumer-driven loyalties to denominations and local congregations, doubts have disappeared.

Third, those who doubt the power of "word of mouth" can now test the power of "vote with the feet" in response to this.

Is this an ongoing conversation? Let me know.

I'm always like the word says: BCurious