By the way, that’s not “babble”—it’s “Babel,” as in the Tower of Babel. Because the accumulating headlines of late, while they may sound like so much babble and background noise, mirror the fatal confusion of that ill-fated attempt long ago to outmaneuver God. “Now the whole earth had one language and a common speech” (Genesis 11:1). So what’s new—the lingua franca of this generation is English, and the modus operandi of communication is social media—one language, one common speech

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Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from The Fourth Watch.