From The Garden And The City By Carmen Dyer

Carmen, the title of the assigned music video, chronicles the life of a man who is essentially enslaved to his Twitter account. Throughout the video, the man is seen to progressively get more and more addicted to the upkeep of his social media. Consequently, the viewer watches the man miss out on enjoyable live moments, movies and his birthday parties, and withdraw from human interaction-- eating meals alone and ruining romantic relationships. This commentary is similar to concepts Dyer introduces in From the Garden and the City. For instance, Dyer reminds his readers that only true joy is found in Christ, and the joy obtained from social media is fleeting. In the music video, the man posts about his fun activities in life, which make him appear
that he lives a happy existence, but when the focus zooms out, the man is alone and has grown gaunt and developed an aura of tiredness around him. The man presents himself on social media as a fulfilled person while the viewers can see it is quite the contrary. Social media is another barrier of discovering true joy in a source that will last an eternity, Jesus Christ.