Ugly, and Everywhere
Monday, July 6th, 2009(Disclaimer: this post, like all of our posts, is the work and opinion of the author, not the church.
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Since this blog is about Worldview, I’m compelled to say that in my view, the world has become far less attractive in the past few years.
Not on God’s part, of course, because he is the ultimate artist, but mankind has uglied the place up, and one of the chief contributors to this blight on the beauty surrounding us is Toyota, whose Prius spoils the landscape seemingly everywhere.
My wife, whose aesthetic senses are very well developed through decades of international travel to evaluate temporary living environments (also known as hotels), can barely stand to look at the things. But because she lives in an area where people have the weird idea that driving a Prius is a good thing, she is forced to look at them over and over.
Last Friday we were driving home from dinner at our favorite Chinese restaurant when she noted three of the offenders in a short space. “Yes,” I said, “there are a lot of them around.” We were less than two blocks from our house at the time, and she said, “I’ll bet we’ll see 10 of them before we get home.”
“Impossible!” I said. And we immediately started counting. (more…)