Paradox

We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;
We spend more, yet have less;
We buy more and enjoy less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families;
Fancier houses but broken homes;
More conveniences, but less time;
We've cleaned the air but polluted the soul;
We have more degrees but less common sense;
More knowledge but less judgment;
More medicine but less wellness.

We’ve multiplied our possessions but reduced our values;
We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life;
We’ve added years to our life and not life to our years;
We’ve conquered outer space but not our inner space;
We’ve done larger things but not better things;
We've got more experts yet more problems;
We talk too much, love to seldom and hate to often.

We’ve learned to rush but not to wait;
We’ve become long on quantity but short on quality;
We have higher incomes but lower morals;
We build faster computers, to hold and process more information but we have less communication;
We’ve split the atom but not our prejudices;
We've steep profits but shallow relationships;

We drink to much, spend to recklessly, laugh to little, drive to fast, get angry to quickly, stay up to late, get up to tired, read to seldom, watch TV to much and communicate to little;
We’ve been to the moon but have trouble crossing the street to meet our new neighbor;
We write more but learn less;
We plan more but accomplish less.

These are times of fast food and slow digestion;
Big men but small character;
More leisure but less fun;
Two incomes but more divorce;
More kinds of food but less nutrition.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from
cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the
showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.