Stained Glass View

I have watched the world change around me. I remember milder winters, hotter summers. I remember the rain and the green fields. I remember when manners and etiquette mattered. I remember having pen friends and the anticipation of receiving a letter after a few weeks. I remember, and despair.

The world has rolled forward, propelled by greed and the internet. Two key forces that have morphed the world beyond recognition. Fueled by the snaking pathways of the ever expanding internet super-highway, a new culture has arisen. Dubbed Generation Y, we stand at the fore of a decadent culture that threatens to overrun, and relegate to mere dusty wiki-pedia entries, the finesse and refinement of centuries of development. From the deep belief of our forefathers in the Enlightenment, we have advanced to become mere shadows, shallow creatures, only concerned with our immediate wants and desires.

Yet we are victims of our own success. It has devoured what little decency we have left. It has scared the old white men, the men of ‘power’. But resistance is futile. Embrace of be swept away.

Communication has become instant, spanning the globe in seconds and for a few mere cents. Purchasing items has shifted online, and ever increasingly, we are buying what we are told we want, rather than what we need. The consumeristic wave has been engulfed by the internet and propelled to starry heights. Knowledge has been reduced to wikipedia and google searches. Discourse has changed from indepth precis to 160 character messages, thirty second forum replies and ever increasing self-centered blogs. The English language has been forgotten and dissected to abbreviations and lol’s.

The world, all at once, has become so much smaller, yet is so much bigger.

Yet my train ride home takes longer now than it did a century ago.

Irony is…ironic.