What Tiger's Scandal says about our Culture

Last week's Comment article on Tiger Woods has been picked up by christianity.ca. In it, John Seel provides several insights on what the Woods' scandal tells us about our culture.

Lesson One: We have lost the courage of common sense.
Lesson Two: We teach young girls the script and they then wait for the part.
Lesson Three: Masculinity has not been defined relationally and there is a price to pay for the failure.
Lesson Four: We plead privacy when we most need transparency.

Play the fame game, play the sexual manipulation game, play it with a false masculinity, assume anonymity—add water and stir—and the results will be the same. Idols cannot be removed. They must be replaced.

The desire for fame that lies behind the celebrity culture is a substitute for significance and belonging in a world without God. When lives seem to lack any over-arching meaning, they seek for it through the fleeting attention paid to them by others. When it's Tiger, "just do it" seems very compelling.

But in the end, it's not about Tiger, but you and me and the culture we have created.

If you missed it, you can read the whole article here.