“But the end of all things is at hand: therefore be serious, and watchful in prayer” (1 Pet 4:7). In his seminal book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman graphically paints a portrait of our times: “…in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face…Big Brother does not watch us…we watch him, by our choice. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is refined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk.…Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To who do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter?” (pp. 155-156). “Let us watch and be sober” (1 Thess 5:6).