Is there a homiletical application about well padded and non-slip souls? Would these have helped Abraham when he started walking to a place he did not know where? Would they last old Moses for the 40 years of wilderness wanderings?
More seriously, when algorithms make such assumptions based on data gathered from online activity, it is a targeting exercise in market strategy. It's a continual probing to enhance a selling strategy. We are being played by technology dedicated to the creation of felt need, based on our purchasing history and online likes.
Perhaps we need those hilarious misses to remind us that our every online move has digital consequences. I neither need nor want these shoes.
But. Had this been a new "magisterial", "game-changing" book that "raises the bar" and "will become the go to work" on one or other of my intellectually happy places….then I might not be writing this post! Such is the persistent subtlety and pervasive interference with our thinking that's an inevitable consequence of our online existence.
Meantime, I'm more than happy with my 20 year old Brasher and more recent Ecco walking boots.
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