The Paradox of Our Time
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers,wider freeways, narrow viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but we enjoy less time. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have mire degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too welcome. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talked too much, love too welcome, and hate too often.
We have learn to make a living, but not a life. We have added years to life and not life to years. We have been all the way to the moon and back, but we have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We have done larger things, but not better things. We have cleaned up the air ,but polluted the soul. We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We have to learn to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever before, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are the days of quick trip, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or just hit delete.
Dr Bob Moorehead
@ On Higher Ground; Reggie Lee; pg 150-152
