It's Friday, May 19, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

World View.

Sometimes there are just massive news stories that demand our attention, but as we come to

the end of the week, I want us to think about some world-view dimensions of stories that

maybe in some cases have been headline news, but aspects deserve a much closer look.

And sometimes the major media report this massive headline news story, and they then move

away their attention is directed to something else.

Meanwhile, new revelations, new developments really do justify if not demand a return

to the earlier story.

Now, for example, just a few weeks ago, all the media were absolutely ablaze about Airman

Jack Tashara, the 21-year-old, arrested on this massive set of charges related to espionage.

The now very well-documented charges indicate that this young man, who was a part of the

Massachusetts Air National Guard, had taken a vast trove of national security information

and just dumped it on the internet.

And furthermore, in a way that is simply almost incomprehensible, it is explained that he

did this simply because it made him look cool in the eyes of his online buddies.

Similarly, the world is shifting to an online world, and evidently online buddies played

a big role in this.

This looks at first like an adolescent prank somehow gone badly, horribly wrong.

And yet, of course, we know there are deeper issues at stake.

This is not just posting some embarrassing information.

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