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2009年07月24日
Good Books: The Trouble with Paris by Mark Sayers
Mark Sayer has written a very interesting and easy to read book about what he calls Hyperreality. Hyperreality is the view or reality or worldview that is presented to us through all of our modern communication tools-our PCs, the internet, our cell phones, ads, and the media in general. His view is that this is a distorted view of reality-that it makes us want to become people we cannot be and own things we really cannot ever buy. It promises to make us more beautiful than we ever can be and otherwise gives us many false hopes.
Some of his chapter titles are: The Whole of Life as Shopping: Hyperconsumerism, Hyperconsumerism as Religion, and Good-bye to the Plastic Jesus of Hyperreality.
He has divided the whole book into three sections-Hyperreality, Reality, and God's Reality. Mark is very different from Francis Schaeffer but I believe he is tryting to do in 2009 what Schaeffer was trying to do in the 60s and 70s-to wake Christians up and to get Christians to understand the kind of culture they were living in and the kind of culture that their children were growing up in.
This is a book that I highly recommend.
Paul
投稿者 bethany : 2009年07月24日 15:45
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