The Cost of Progress

Progress is the buzz word of the century. The whole world is making progress by leaps and bounds. People are outperforming themselves.

And yet, the people today are more discontent and unhappy than their parents and grand parents. The things that brought wonder and awe some decades ago, are common place and insignificant today.

Makes you wonder, what this mad rush for progress is all about. As a society we increased the pace of our lives many times over that of our parents and grand parents. But that pace has come at a cost. Family values are deteriorating and the individual is becoming more important that the family. Personalities are becoming more and more complex; as are our social problems.

The analogy I like to refer to is that of a rubber band. You can keep stretching it, and it will stretch, but at some point it just snaps. The pace of our lives has taken a toll on our minds.