Pop [ped-Bubble] Culture

In the event that we have fallen into the trap of being too harsh or critical of our current culture and society, my thoughts today are shaped around the effort to share a couple things that are actually pretty great about what's going on in the pop-culture world:

1. Popped Bubbles - Significantly more so now than many times in our history, it is cool to mix, cool to welcome.   Many of the lines that once divided and segregated our society have been disrupted.
   
2. Hot Fingertips - Don't have access to an encyclopedia, an ivy league education, or the daily newspaper?  Don't sweat it:  from recipes, to (fairly) accurate facts, to diagnoses and remedies, to reports, journals, and newspaper articles, it's now online.  It's all at your fingertips now.
   
3. I-Can Courage - In spite of a rocky economy and major shifts in production and employment, today's younger generations have more courage, confidence, and assurance that things will work out favorably than any other generation.  Can't beat that if you're looking into the future!
   
4. Rolls Unrolled - Whether or not it's even cool or trendy, we're saving rolls and rolls of paper per year because of bill-pay, e-mail, and other conveniences.
   
5. Famous Walls - The walls that stand between hopefuls and future stardom have crumbled.  More now than ever, through the use of personalized technology, anyone can get in front of someone who may have connections to fame.  And even when that doesn't work, all a person really needs to do is strike a nerve with the world, and their video, blog, or other production just may go viral by the end of the day!
   
6. Miracle Street - Our health and healing technologies are making leaps and bounds, not to mention all the ways technology aids the basic operations of the healthcare world.  My entire last visit with the doctor was conducted with an i-Pad and a stethoscope.
   
7. Word on the Street - The number of people reading the Bible has exploded recently, nearly tripling, because of how accessible it now is digitally.  

This isn't an exhaustive list, by any means, but it's helpful to see the bright side of life as it is as well. Otherwise, it's far too easy to develop a sense of unrealistic sentimentality that wishes the world were restored to "the way things used to be" or that wishes the world would simply hurry up and straighten out all its problems and be perfect.  

So here's to today!

More to come!

Jason <><