The Digital Age

Digital inventions are marvelous but they have turned us into a sound bite nation. The news is reported in sound bites. We text in sound bites. Presidential candidates campaign in sound bites. We no longer think in sentences and we are too busy watching digital machines to read books.

It's almost impossible to turn off all the digital machines we think are essential for daily routines. Before we had them, we enjoyed nature's gift of weather reflected in the clouds, singing of birds and flowering trees and shrubs as we moved thru the day, but now we sit in closed air conditioned rooms and listen to reproductions of music or the human voice as our eyes are bombarded with thousands upon thousands of graphic images.

Our imaginations are stolen by digital machines. We are so busy watching them we no longer know how to think or question the whys and wherefores of life. We are content to let the machines tell us in sound bites what is going on in the world around us and we allow ourselves to be persuaded by forces that are not in our best interest.