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In the article, the author discusses issues about religion and politics by reminiscing on his early experiences of the church and radicalism. Also cited are how he found religion and the Holy Spirit in punk music that led to his participation in riots, rallies, and radical politics, and how anarchism depends on moral, spiritual, and religious views to advance.

The article discusses how people are chained by their love of being in touch. It says that all life must be transcribed right away into easily disseminated bulletins on how people are doing. According to the author, people are thoroughly addicted to communication. The problem of knowing things only from the shadows and the endless hours spent by people in constructing their Internet selves are also discussed.

The 1.7 million members of the Class of 2011 witnessed, within the four-year span of their college careers, one of the greatest bull markets in United States history and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Last spring, they shed their caps and gowns and joined a kind of B.A. bread line. Unemployment among recent liberal-arts graduates, at 9.4 percent, was higher than the national average, and student-loan debt, at an average of nearly $25,000, had reached record levels. Worse still, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics was reporting that only 5 of the 20 jobs projected to grow fastest over the coming decade would require a bachelor's degree. Though the statistics still show that a college degree correlates with both higher income and lower unemployment in the long run, diplomas didn't seem very valuable when they were handed out last May. Graduating seniors at schools like Drew University in Madison, N.J., have felt the stresses of the job market acutely. For all its merits -- including a much-admired theater department and a prestigious Wall Street internship program -- Drew ranks 94th among 178 private liberal-arts colleges on U.S. News & World Report's annual list. The middle of the collegiate pack is not where you want to be when you're competing for a diminishing number of entry-level jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]