"Our Culture Today"

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In our culture today, 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 homes But smaller families More conveniences But less time We have more degrees But less sense More knowledge But less judgment More experts But yet more problems More medicine But less wellness See, we drink too much Smoke too much Spend too recklessly Laugh too little Drive too fast Get too angry Stay up too late Get up too tired Read too little And watch too much T.V. ...and pray too seldom We have multiplied our possessions But reduced our values We talk too much Love too seldom Hate too often We learned how to make a living But not a life We've added years to life But not life to years

We've been all the way to the moon and back But have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor We've conquered outer space But not inner space See, we've done larger things But not better things We've cleaned up the air But polluted the soul We've conquered the atom But not our prejudice We write more But learn less, accomplish less We learn to rush But not to wait We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever But we communicate less and less See, these are the times of fast food And slow digestion Big men But small character Steep profits And shallow relationships These are the days of two incomes But more divorce Fancier houses But broken homes These are the days of quick trips Disposable diapers Throwaway morality One night stands Overweight bodies And pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill See, this is the time when there is much in the showroom window And nothing in the stockroom Yes this is the state of our current culture. - Author Unknown -

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