Our Culture

In our culture today, we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers. Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but we have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We have larger incomes and more debt. We have bigger homes, but smaller families. More conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense. More knowledge, but less judgement. More experts and yet more problems. More medicine, but less wellness. More religions, and fewer Christians. Too much religion and not enough Christ. You see 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 too much television and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions and reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, hate too often. We learn how to make a living, but not a life. We have added years to life, but not life to years. We have been to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We have conquered outer-space, but not inner-space. You see we have done larger things, but not better things. We have cleaned up the air, but have polluted the soul. We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less, accomplish less. We learn to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. You see these are the times of fast food and slow digestion. Big men, but small character. Steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes and more divorce. Fancier houses and broken homes. These are the days of quick trips, disposable values, throw away morality, one night stands. It's a hook-up culture. It's overweight bodies and pills that do everything, from cheer... to quiet ... to kill. This is the time were there is much in the show room window, and nothing in the stock room. Yes, this is the state of our current culture. Or is it?