Time & Perspective Quote by Barbara Walters

Walters is doing what she always did best: turning small talk into a weather report on the national psyche. The line hinges on an apparent contradiction - more technology, more spirituality - and she treats it less like a paradox than a ratings-friendly trendline. That’s the specific intent: to name a cultural mood in plain language, to make it legible to a mass audience, and to signal that “religion” isn’t a niche relic but a live wire running through modern life.

The subtext is more pointed. Walters isn’t praising faith so much as diagnosing a hunger. Technical mastery can make daily life efficient, even dazzling, but it doesn’t automatically supply meaning, comfort, or moral narrative. Her observation suggests that modernity doesn’t erase the need for transcendence; it reorganizes it, often into pop-friendly forms. That’s why The Da Vinci Code matters here: not as literature (“a great yawn” is classic Walters bluntness) but as a proof-of-concept that spiritual curiosity can be packaged as entertainment and still move millions.

Context sharpens the edge. Walters came from an era of broadcast gatekeepers watching culture fragment into cable, then the early internet, with authority (political, religious, journalistic) under pressure. Her aside about the book’s success reads like a veteran interviewer’s instinct: follow the audience. If people will swallow a pulpy conspiracy to talk about Jesus, it means they’re still wrestling with the big questions - just not always in sanctuaries, and not always with clergy in charge.