In this article at Christ and Pop Culture, I use David Foster Wallace, Roger Scruton, and Hans Urs von Balthasar to comment on the addictive nature of consumer entertainment and how true beauty might be an antidote to addiction.
True beauty does not distract us from the world but allows us to more fully see the world and be attuned to it. Beauty requires a shift away from the self and to the other; it’s retraining of our attention. We can’t unsee beauty. Beauty offers continually refreshment whenever we experience it: in the theater, in nature, on Netflix.
