Clear bad guys.
Clear good guys.
Clear fear.
A shared goal.
I truly, truly never thought modern homosapiens would simply distract and entertain themselves into oblivion.
We’ve all seen the clips:
But even these now seem so tame.
Checking an email, reading a text, sharing a meme.
Bless your hearts you 2010 humans!
According to Pew Research in 2025, half of U.S. teenagers use the internet “almost constantly.”
But wait there’s more!
Just in time for the positive news that many Gen Z kids are putting down their phones, joining luddite clubs, and playing board games, seniors are picking them up.
In other words show me a No Kings rally that didn’t start on Facebook and I’ve got some prime Rio Rancho property to sell you.
It’s not the information overload.
It’s not even the doom news, the rage-bait politics, the gambling, or the p*rn.
It’s far worse than all that.
Nobody cares.
Of 2023-2026 Non-Revivals and Non-Rebirths
In February of 2023, as the U.S. and the world were barely recovering from the fog of covid, a bright spot broke out at a country university in the southern state of Kentucky.
An old fashioned spiritual revival.
Pastors and believers hailed the ‘Asbury Outpouring’ as proof of a generation in need of faith, dying for connection, and ready to do anything to find it.
They may have been right.
But that was three years ago.
Which means that many at the revival are now graduated, entering a workforce at a perilous digital crossroads, in the midst of a new middle east war, and under a president using the F-bomb in an online post on Easter Sunday.
You really couldn’t write this any drearier.
Rebirth in UK or nah?
In 2025 a faith survey was released by YouGov that made major waves in the UK, spawning sermons, Bible sales, and podcasts, and caused hope that the dark continent - spiritually speaking - was finally reversing course. The study alleged a distinct rise in Christian identity and church attendance from 2018-2024, especially among young males.
The findings were shared far and wide, dissected and discussed, presented and pushed as good news.
Fast forward to March 2026, and the YouGov survey is retracted as containing false positives, confirmation bias, and repeated responses.
Major waves caused again - for entirely different reasons.
Statement from the British and Foreign Bible Society:
And I don’t know where you are, but here it’s raining.
Symbolism for the win.
I never read the Judy Blume classic
Probably because I wasn't a Margaret.
But having been written in 1970, with the many fears of that time period, Margaret might as well have been replaced with “us humans."
AI-generated of course.
1970 to 2026 is quite the time period.
Chaotic.
Incredible.
Immoral.
Amazing.
I’m going with tumultuous.
Although tumultuous only describes about 1% of the chaos, progress, depravity, and advancements of the past half-century it’s the only word that comes close.
3 AM
To think I’m only writing because it’s 3am and I can’t sleep.
I’m caregiving for a woman who was born just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. And here we are with war on the doorstep again.
- Priscilla and Alden.. Easter Sunday, 2026
One of the side benefits of all-consuming caregiving is that almost everything else in the world doesn’t matter.
I assume being a new parent is pretty much the same.
Eating, sleeping, cleaning up after, administering medicine, and offering social stimulation are the only things that matter.
Thankfully.
Meanwhile in the desert
In a totally random turn of events I took a weekend off from caregiving duties to appear in longtime friend and film collaborator Don Johnson’s upcoming theatrical series on the attributes of God.
Yes that’s the Ark of the Covenant - all 300 lbs. of it.
And no, we didn’t open it.
Reversal
Is it possible we can reverse our nihilistic trend?
Can we reverse the trends leading us towards 24-7 streaming, seeking trite entertainment over real connections, comfort and convenience over goals and struggles, and with no choice but to fund universal basic income for all?
I’m sure we can, but I haven’t found out how just yet.
Are you there, God?
If you’ve got any tips, I’m all ears.
