We spoke yesterday about the power of one’s environment and how critical it is in current times to lock secular society out of our homes.
But this is easier said than done.
For at the same time that society’s morality has collapsed, the means of locking it out has become immeasurably more difficult. Much of technology is geared specifically to bringing the world “out there” into one’s home.
By allowing such technology into our homes, the secular world and its values become a piece of our environment, and can easily become the central piece. Just enter a non-Jewish home and note how all the furniture seems to face the television. The couch and chairs in the living room, the cooking station and dinette table in the kitchen, all face the television. And of course, the TV is prominently positioned at the foot of the beds in the bedroom. The television is not only a piece of the environment; it is the focal point. Without proper precautions, the risk of technology overwhelming our lives exists for us as well.
What makes technology even more dangerous is its stealth. Technology hides as “information” displayed on a tiny screen. It appears to be so innocent, and is so easy to just ignore - which is exactly why it is so lethal.
Compare someone being attacked by a weapon with someone being attacked by chemical warfare. In the former case, the victim knows what he is facing, so his reaction is immediate: fight or flight. But chemical warfare is different. One could be under attack and be completely unaware that this is the case. Even one who remains at home is vulnerable to the poison that may seep into any crack in the walls.
Similarly, when one leaves his home, he knows that he is leaving his own environment and entering a foreign one. But when one enters his home, he feels safe and away from it all and his guard is down. Technology has changed all that. Protection is not that easy. Locking the door won’t help.
We are facing, as they say, a “double whammy”: a society with an ever declining morality, that is bolstered with technology that spreads it values (or lack of them) - with ever more sophisticated and pernicious means - through the Internet, smart phones, etc. Technology has made securing a safe environment much more complicated than it once was. We cannot just go home and lock the door. We truly need insulation.