"In the West, you have bigger homes, yet smaller families; you have endless conveniences -- yet you never seem to have any time. You can travel anywhere in the world, yet you don't bother to cross the road to meet your neighbors...I don't think people have become more selfish, but their lives have become easier and that has spoiled them.
They have less resilience, they expect more, they constantly compare themselves to others and they have too much choice -- which brings no real freedom."
Thanks to Anne the first one/in Dallas who left this quote in this Open Thread in April, 2006
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how true // how wise.
smarty pants
i saw an almost identical statement credited to george carlin recently. reminds me of that kurt vonnegut thing that he supposedly read at some ivy league school's graduation ceremony that was passed around the web for a while.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/carlin.htm
a snippet:
A wonderful Message by George Carlin:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy 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 experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
When he's not repairing old watches, the Dalai Lama likes to watch old clips of George Carlin standup routines that his Assistant Lama finds on youtube. Carlin may sue for failure to cite proper attribution.
At least we have Starbucks
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now if only my friends would buy-in.
definitely working on it!