A Student Publication of the Loyola School of Theology

It is, indeed, necessary to bring back dialogue in today’s social space, a space that is powerfully drowned by technology’s noise. But in order to bring it back in the public sphere one important thing should equally be recovered, that is, our “sensible” humanity. Most people today are constantly vying for attention. They want to be attended to—to be listened to—but are not willing to dialogue (or, perhaps, rob of their capacity to do so). They are too glued to their smartphones and gadgets that they become inept to liberate themselves from them. Consider it modern slavery. Under this condition, it seems that genuine dialogue is losing its battle. It might not even be a fad, a passé in our noisy and gadget-filled modern society. Yet it is never too late to sound the clarion for dialogue to reclaim its rightful place in the public sphere.