that we have taller buildings,
but shorter temper;
wider freeways,
but narrow viewpoints;
spend more but have less;
buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses but smaller families,
more conveniences, but less time;
more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems too;
more medicine, but less well being.
We've learned how to make a living,
but not how to live a life,
added years to life,
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
who has just settled in.
We've conquered etheric space,
but not inner space;
cleaned up the air;
but polluted the soul;
split the atom,
but not our prejudice.
-ALFRED SAMUEL
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