There’s a strange religion humming in the fluorescent glow of home offices everywhere. Its altar? A glowing rectangle. Its gospel? The PowerPoint presentation. Google slides. Canva rectangular templates.
We’ve all seen it. The sermon of bullet points. The slow unfurling of better-than-clip-art dreams and gradient-laced promises. Each slide a new verse in the corporate psalm book, chanted to the gods of “alignment” and “clarity.”
But here’s the heretical thought: Does any of it actually move the world forward?
Or is PowerPoint just the modern campfire where we pretend to make meaning out of data, while secretly praying no one asks the one question we can’t answer?
There’s beauty in a good deck. It can clarify, simplify, persuade. A tight narrative with the right visuals can shift a room. The right slide at the right time can spark revolutions of thought.
But most decks? I’d guess you’re experience with them has been like a theater performance. Dress rehearsals for ideas that never make it to the street. We click through slides like pilgrims trudging through ritual, convinced that progress lives in transitions and animations and sweet sweet graphics that highlight output but hide the heart behind it.
Maybe PowerPoint isn’t the villain.
Maybe it’s a mirror.
Maybe the real question isn’t should we stop making presentations—but why do we need them so badly in the first place?
Are we afraid to speak without them?
Are we addicted to the illusion of control they offer?
Or are we just scared that without the slides, our ideas might have to stand naked in the room—vulnerable, questioned, human? Afraid that it becomes about us instead of about the ideas.
Next time you open PowerPoint, pause before you click “New Slide.”
Ask yourself: Am I trying to share something that will shift a mind?
Or am I just painting the walls of the same room I’ve always stood in?
Because the world might not need another decked out room of wallpaper, but another set of humans looking each other in the eyes.
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