Life in the 21st Century


I made a mistake this morning I stopped to think, now in the ordinary course of events this is a definite plus, however, this morning I began to think on just how complicated life has become for all of us in this new century.

To keep up with technology you need to work at it almost twenty-four hours a day, and then you always miss something Don’t get me wrong I love the new things that technology has enabled me to do, but it does get a little overwhelming at times. Being able to have a voice and having others read/listen to what you have to say is such a great thing that it must be a worry to the traditional media moguls, but to the everyday person like me it is a great boon. It just seems that the rate of change is accelerating beyond my ability to keep up.

The advances in medical technology are truly amazing and awe inspiring, yet many in the world do not have access to even basic health care, the disparity of health care access in the world is a true testament to the inordinate amount of resources devoted to things such as war and ego boosting ‘national projects’. Even in the so called developed world there is an increasing number of ‘have nots’ who can not afford primary health care and use the emergency heath system at a much greater cost to us all. One wonders if in the not too distant future there may be a caste of people who enjoy almost never ending long life with a corresponding well-being and there would be the rest of us short lifers. Some things need to change radically in this field before this too becomes an excuse for militant action by the people excluded.

The emergence of a real problem of oil availability looms large over most of the world as a potential life changing event on the horizon, with a dumb ass President in the pay of big oil not able or willing to make the necessary hard choices to begin to address this problem we all have to hold our breath and hope that the wheels do not fall of this creaky system until there is someone in charge that will make the hard choices. With virtually no attempt made to curb the use of oil or the development of new energy sources that do not pollute and are renewable. Call be a cynic but I do not trust the current market system to rectify this.

In conclusion there are these and many other instances of inequity, injustice and plain greed in this green world of ours. Maybe I worry too much; things have a habit of turning our ok, don’t they?