Status Updates From From Object to Icon: The St...

whiteboard meme guy coming out: "It is about idolatry, as I seek my meaning and fulfillment in the creation rather than the Creator. Is requires nothing of me except what I want to give… It enables me to hide myself, my fears, my inadequacies, and pretend they don’t exist... It cuts off any possible link with a deeper reality beyond the psychophysical, which means it cuts me off from God and abuses His creation."

sexuality's formation is short-circuited in both the digital and medical realms: “In this way, the story I tell will become a form of objectification, because I am desperate to fix in place something that will make sense for me, something that will preclude unknowing and will enable me in my powerlessness to gain control over the world."

Masks and desire are of utmost relevance to both the digitization and medicalization of sexuality: “And in all these coping strategies, I am still attempting to maintain power and control over my life… to work out my struggles under my own strength, to avoid the essential unknowing of life. When I do this I give myself over to fear and despair, rather than love.”

The discussion on masks and desire has rich crossover between the digitization and medicalization of sexuality: “And in all these coping strategies, I am still attempting to maintain power and control over my life… nevertheless, if I look deep inside, I will probably find that even this is an attempt to control my own destiny, to work out my struggles under my own strength, to avoid the essential unknowing of life.”

“Seeing iconologically implies that neither our genetic inheritance nor our physical environment ultimately determines who we are and what we do— that although these affect us, we have a freedom that goes far, far deeper than we can imagine.”

Im in awe that the depth and beauty of this book. The writing conveys how we are supposed to view the world so perfectly.