I was thinking this morning about change and what a mixed bag it is. Good things like indoor plumbing, electricity, automobiles, technology and eradicating diseases like polio have enormous human impact. I suppose change has to stand on the shoulders of the past and use it for fuel, but it makes me sad to know the horse and buggy, Pony Express and slide rule become an asterisk in some history book.
'Follow me', Change says, 'There is a better way.'
Change isn't good by nature, it depends on how we direct it. I don't see it strengthening our society in our beating our best efforts without contemplating the toll. Do we really need this much entertainment-driven technology that isolates the society? If our best minds are focused on Gameboys and Blackberrys, who will carry on the American legacy of being the world's gritty survivors, inventors and innovators?
That bigger and better mousetrap everybody's focused on might just beat us at our own game.
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