Edeye's Soap Box

       "We have it in our power to begin the world again." Thomas Paine
                It seems to me that we have all these modern conveniences and time saving machines but we have less and less time. It seems to me that before we had all this "stuff" we had more time. For those of you of a certain age, you might remember a time when a lot of business closed mid day on Wednesdays and everything was closed on Sundays. Sundays were a time family's visited each other and did things together. Yea, if you were a kid it might be a pain in the ass to go see that distant aunt or uncle, but there were always cookies and other delights along the way. Looking back, I wonder what happened to that. No wonder we have a lack of respect for life. Were is the moral rudder for this country? It is so easy to cut your self off from the world these days, they say you are connected but your not. You can talk to some one in Australia but you don't know whats going on in your own neighborhood. It seems that all these shiny electronics actually disconnect us from our own communities and families. Its sad to see a van go down the road with the kids glued to the monitor on the back of the seat in front of them. They are missing so much, disengaged from their parents and all the scenery around them. I embrace this technology just like everyone else, but I also think its the devil in disguise if not used right.