It was the Thinking that was Wrong, All Along...

I always thought the world would be reliably consistent during my lifetime. I mean, there have been changes, of course. Things that are considered positive, like new technology, cars, telephones, televisions, and home appliances. Things that make our lives easier. I've never worried about the things our collective awareness keeps throwing in the face of the public, between the sitcoms and reality shows. When each problem comes to the penultimate moment, it doesn’t take much to convince myself that it won’t affect me, that it won’t be a real problem until after I'm gone. But I've been wrong, as are all those who allow themselves to be seduced by the conveniences of technology, of money and an easy life.

We all go about our short, pointless existences, working our jobs, walking our dogs and driving our cars. Most of the people who are like me, whose world is small, including our home, our work and our friends, rarely look beyond it, and when we do, we think of it as something “outside”, as something that will never really affect us in our own little universe. Boy, are we wrong.