But where is the respect for one another when we mock those who experience tragedy, when their suffering becomes our entertainment? When we embrace the reality-show and YouTube forms of entertainment, we create a kind of lightness about life, with an emphasis not on what is weighty and eternal but on what is fleetingly entertaining. Our love for this type of entertainment spreads so that all of life becomes marked by disrespect, by lack of sobriety. We become what we love.
