Silly dove

From Hosea 7:11

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense
calling to Egypt, going to Assyria

What a fascinating analogy that Hosea uses. The dove is used in the Bible as a sign of salvation (Noah, Jesus' baptism). Yet here, Ephraim/Israel's nature as God's chosen people is juxtaposed with the dove's behavior, described as silly and without sense. Even though they are God's people and God has promised He will protect them, they continue to call out to other nations, looking for wisdom apart from the one who provides it.

I am reminded of a recent article written about the silliness of today, how we're looking for validation and identity in so many things of foolishness, yet in a secular humanist society, one without a God who assigns value, where else can we go?

...People want now to be "recognized" for very unremarkable things, like "my hair is curly, but like, not completely curly, you know...? I'm like a mixed cis-curly quasi-linear anti-perm fluffduffer." 

All juveniles do this -- they're literally trying to figure out who they are, and what makes them "special," and very into contrived self-definitions. All that crap about being so into this band or that one, or this music genre or that, or this type of fashion -- all that crap is people who have never done anything interesting or remarkable attempting to contrive some Medal, some Decoration they can put upon their chest to make them stand out (if only in their imaginations). 

This silly crap about "graysexuals" and "aromantics" is just the latest, most rancidly stupid variation of this unfortunate tendency -- the radiant narcissism of the unfashionably plain and heroically unaccomplished.