Was listening to the radio this morning and the presenter was commenting on a talk by the writer, A.S. Byatt. I'll summarise:
The rise of social networking, tweeting etc is to give us credence that we exist. In a world generally where God is not acknowledged we need something else to tell us our place and who we are.
The more we're noticed (from hits etc from tweeting and the friends we have and comments from social networking) the more we exist. Or feel we do.
However, the way we really find out who we are and our place in the cosmos is by being alone; exploring our thoughts, looking around us at our world, reading something that makes us take a stand, learning to know ourselves not through others' eyes, but through our own.
Who said, 'It is in solitude we find ourselves....?'
And where am I writing this?
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