PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
ROSE COLORED GLASS
Anxiety and dissention are the unfortunate results of the Internet Age. It was once comfortable to believe that we were all basically the same.
Rose-colored glasses are passé. We now must view our world through kaleidoscope specs. Freedom of information also means freedom of misinformation. Every bright and shiny, sharp-edged sect demands its own recognition.
Tea Party and Trumpers separate from Republicans and Democrats. Anti-vaxxers abound. Flat Earth is a growth industry. There are still Christian mega-churches, but more and more, worshippers are doing what they did two millennia ago – gather in groups of 10 or 15 in private homes.
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Archon's Den 
Depressing topic, but that’s a glorious ceiling.
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That ceiling is gorgeous. When I was in seventh grade, a family moved to my home town. I don’t know why my little town, as opposed to where they came from, or ‘The Big City.’ The father built stained glass. I never saw any of his work. 🙂
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Religion is about as likely to fade as celebrity worship. Could happen, but not in our lifetimes!
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Not as long as the masses need bread and circuses. 😳
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Won’t fade as long as I have Jesus. He is a pretty sure bet.
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Does He get up on a stepladder, and clean and polish it? 😕
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Reality. You gotta love it.
“The Age of Anxiety” was first published in 1947. Little did he ever know.
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I prefer reality, even when I don’t understand it. Reality is stranger than fiction – fiction has to make sense. 🙂
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I’m reading “Reality Hunger” by David Shields. Interesting opinions on just that topic.
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Not exactly progress is it?
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No. It’s change, without improvement. Joe Biden may be able to knit the U.S. back together a bit, from the mess that Trump left. Snowflakes, Cancel Culture, and Woke – it may be too late. I don’t see cracks that large in Canada’s culture/politics. 😳
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I like the idea of ‘kaleidoscope specs’. I thought of a kaleidoscope too when I first saw the prompt, but no ideas came beyond that impression. As you say, technology has trained us to respond to images that are bright, colourful, and lively – hence some of the problems you describe. Too many of us don’t try to see past the glitz and razzamatazz to accurately assess the worth, or lack of it, in our leaders and institutions.
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In a ‘Blame the Victim vein,’ there’s a saying that states that a population gets the leaders it deserves. That may be true on an overall basis, but I certainly don’t get the leaders that I feel I deserve. 😦
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I’ll stick with the rose-coloured specs, don’t care if they’re passe. Interesting take!
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😀 😀
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From rose-colored glasses to kaleidoscope specs, good way to put it. I’m not too worried about the small groups, but I am worried.
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It can be worrying, when we can see a potential problem, but not be able to avoid it because of social inertia. 🙂
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