Looking for the Mouse
I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she's going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn't what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, "What you doing?" And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, "Looking for the mouse."
Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for.
-- Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
Why the future belongs to those who can figure out how to radically decentralise, democratise, and empower the world to cooperate on projects they believe in, rather than try to centrally control it and enforce policy from above.
And that includes the Christian church.
The good news is that Christianity didn't actually start out as a top-down central control trip, so stepping into this terrifying new world of massive democracy actually means getting *back* to orthodox belief, not destroying it.