I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older or because we’ve reached a saturation point in our society, but I find myself agreeing with Ogden Nash: “Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.” And, if I may add, “too far.”
I recognize there are still many problems to solve and challenges to overcome, and I appreciate the tremendous blessings technology has brought. Yet, much of today’s so-called progress doesn’t seem truly necessary. Do we need another social networking tool? Do our phones need to get any smarter? Do we really need more TV channels or more ways to watch movies? Does my refrigerator really need computing capabilities? Where is all this progress taking us?
Maybe I’m just an old “fuddy-duddy,” but I don’t use—or need—90% of this supposed progress. It seems we’ve become overly impressed with ourselves, and our advancements are merely affirmations of an idolatrous desire to eat from the tree of progress rather than from the tree of life.
