Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Alex Vasquez, director of Young Life in Sioux County, about his work in the community. He is speaking from several platforms that allow him to serve as a “bridge builder” between cultures within Sioux Center.
Whether such a vision of a nation banding together internally free from outside interference is the best way forward, I will leave for the reader to decide.
Another important question remains, though—in the realm of minimalism, why is it only a select culture of people who get to define what is and isn’t a healthy internal and external reality?
In his book Culture Care, Makoto Fujimura describes how our culture is influenced by a post-industrial, utilitarian view of life: life is a battle to compete for resources, which are growing increasingly scarce.
In a world full of noise, TLDR or "too long, didn't read," is emblematic our society’s short attention span.
How we can work to stem the rising tide of loneliness and alienation?
