The paradox of our time in history
is that we have ever taller buildings, but lower morality, ever wider highways, but narrower horizons. We spend more, but we have less, we buy more, but we enjoy less. We have bigger homes and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more education, but less common sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, and even more problems, more medicines, but less… well-being. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend without restraint, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up late, get up tired, see too much TV, and pray infrequently. We have multiplied our properties, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too little and hate too often. We learned how to make a living, but not how to live.
THE PARADOX OF OUR AGE
We have added years to life, but not life to years. We’ve been to and from the Moon, but we can’t make it across the landing to meet a new neighbor. We have conquered the outer space, but not the inner space. We have created bigger things, but not better. We have cleaned the air, but polluted the soul. We have dominated the atom, but not prejudices. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We have learned to hurry, but not to wait. We build larger computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast food and slow digestion, big men and small characters, rich profits and poor relationships. These are the times of two incomes and more divorces, more beautiful homes but broken families. These are the times of fast travel, disposable diapers, disposable morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies and pills that can make you do everything from cheering up, to calm down, to killing you. It is a time when there are so many things on display and nothing in stock. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and when you can choose to share these thoughts with others, or to delete them.
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