Perhaps you’ve seen this silly quotation:
“Modern man is in a terrible predicament. He is helplessly enamored with the beauty of what the old world built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to build it.”
It’s usually acribed to author Jeremy Tate and paired with an image of a wonderful old building.
Here are some equally silly variants, the first directed to those who use modern computers, modern internet, modern electricity, to make anti-modern statements:
“Anti-modern man is in a terrible predicament. He loves using the powerful tools that the modern world gives him, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to be invented.”
“The Christian man is in a terrible predicament. He is helplessly enamored with the beauty of what the Islamic world built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to build it.”
Cheap shots and straw men are a staple of social-media commentary, yet I have a continuing hope that we can more frequently have nuanced discussions of accurately framed issues.