Turn them off. Turn them all off. It is affecting you. It is infecting you.
The reason everything is “crazy” in some conservative circles, with the constant unhinged attacks on Israel and people flipping sides and going against each other, is that that is the nature of sand. It shifts. It is shapeless. You can build on it, sure, but it won’t withstand the harsh winds of life.
If you shape your mind, political philosophy, or anything else on personalities, you are sure to be disappointed. There is only one sure foundation on which to build our lives, and only one: Jesus Christ (see 1 Corinthians 3:11).
We build our lives moment by moment, by how we invest our very limited time and resources (material, emotional, intellectual, spiritual). Therefore, to build a philosophy, a worldview, a righteous opinion, a political ideology, a wise cultural viewpoint, or a legacy, one must spend more time in the Scriptures than on podcasts, IG, or X.
Truth be told, though, the Spirit of the Age has such a grip on so many in our culture that they will actually spend three hours daily listening to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens spew venom, while relegating the Scriptures to a scroll of social media and a verse of the day. What would you expect the fruits of such investments to be?
I can think of a few: anxiety, depression, paranoia, distrust, rebellion, and shame, among others. Disappointment, too, for when our idols are smashed, the disillusionment is felt very deeply. And the idols of today, like those of yesterday, will be smashed, for they are made of sand — of clay.
