Less is More?
We live in a time of slogans. We’ve been conditioned to think in short bursts by the marketing industry to get us to buy the next whatever. Why wouldn’t you: YOLO! Slogans can become a compass, a winning fork, or a geiger counter for a person or group which is what our consumption culture has also conditioned us to accept. This has aided and abetted group identity to become more narrow than ever before and has had both, a negative and a positive, effect on our culture; and on religion as well. Was living less or more ambiguous one hundred years ago? Two hundred years ago? I do think this slogan, “less is more” can apply in my life, to our culture, and to my brand of Christian witness. I don’t think it will the lessen the ambiguity, but it might bring some interpretative clarity.
More people saying less (and a few more people saying more)
Seth Godin | June 3, 2014“Ditto!”
Opening the doors for the masses to speak, giving everyone who cares to have one a microphone–it has led to an explosion in people speaking. And most people, most of the time, are saying virtually nothing. Nothing worth reading, nothing worth repeating, certainly nothing worth remembering.
They’re speaking, not speaking up.
But a few people…
A few people, people who would never have been chosen by those in power, are saying more. Writing more deeply, connecting more viscerally, changing the things around them.