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It matters little to me what “modern times” means. In 1265 B.C., and in a language I wouldn’t understand, those people called 1265, “modern times.” Maybe gunpowder was the new thing? It wasn’t a Volkswagon, that’s for sure. No, the times they are a changin’ (Bob Dylan) and almost by the hour. In fact, it is starting to feel like the times are changing faster than the human mind can keep up. It’s rather like doing one hundred miles per hour on the freeway and trying to keep track of what you just passed by. A billboard, a town, a city? One wonders at today’s society and all the problems people seem to be having over basic things such as treating one another with respect. Of course, add to the melee the internet with a healthy dose of free speech and we have a thousand ring circus with all the acts going on at the same time. Add rock music to this and we end up with a cacophony the mind cannot deal with. Thus, today. Our times.

We will not slow down though, will we? No, it is full speed ahead and “Damn the torpedoes, Gridley!” Thus, potential ruin. No, I am not a pessimist but these times when looked at with stark reality are not healthy for a society. We have outmatched our minds ability to keep up with all the input. If we are the design of a supreme being, those untold epochs ago, we were designed to exist in simplicity, not competitive times. Each of us self-contained in a family unit without screaming input twenty-four hours a day from all these sources.

Have you ever just gone out to a quiet place at night and laid back to look at the stars? Do so, if you haven’t. NO beer either! Just your sober mind and the universe. What is sober nowadays? Sober used to be the way we looked at the world. Not high or drunk or cavorting with the opposite sex but calm, deliberative and, believe it or not, a sense of faith in the eternal. A sense of creation and purpose for ourselves. Today, we are lost in an urban setting easily identified if we just watch TV. All of that programming comes with an urban mindset. It certainly isn’t a mindset encouraging the simplicity of life is it? Buy this, take that, one up your neighbor. Just plain silliness.

Unfortunately, too many buy into having what is on TV from those urban folks who then pay big money to advertise and make big money to go on long exotic vacations to do what? To get away from themselves and to find peace. Meanwhile, what they have produced growls or howls out of our TV screens and urges us to buy what the advertisers paid big money to get away from.

We live in the valley of silly do we not? Drink, do drugs, leave me alone. Nah, it is just time to mature into sensible, as we were designed to be, before urbanity took over the world that God created. A dichotomy if ever there was a dichotomy. Yet, look at this fool, writing on the internet. I never said I was perfect. I know better than that!