Paradoxes of Our Time

The paradox of our time is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers, wider freeways, bur narrower view points.

We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees, but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more medicine, but less wellness.

We have more experts, yet more problems.

We drink too much, spend too recklessly, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, watch TV too much, stay up too late and get too tired... while we smile too little, laugh too little, hug too little, read too little, and pray too little.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We talk too much and listen too little.

We love too seldom, and hate more often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet new neighbor. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.

We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait.

We have higher incomes, but lower morals.

We have more food, but less appeasement.

We build more computers to hold more information that we print on more paper than ever before. But we communicate less and connect less.

We've become long on quantity, but short on quality.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestions, tall men, and short character, steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but not domestic warfare, more leisure, but less fun, more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce, of fancier houses, but broken homes.

These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers and throw away morality.

We have pills to grow hair, pills to stop allergies, pills to lose weight and pills to help sex. And we have parents who wonder why their children pop pills.

We have health Maintenance Organizations that don't help the healthy maintain their health but tell the sickly what doctors they can't see.

It is time when there is more in the show window and less in the stockroom.

Now, it is a time for us to realize our guilt?