THINGS I WONDER ABOUT
How we can think and devise all sorts of wonderful gadgets and procedures to allow us to do so many fantastic things; to travel to glamorous places; to converse with each other while many miles apart; even to repair our own ailing bodies, but continued to fail to find a way to make wheels - cars, carts, chariots, wagons and others - stop appearing to go in the wrong direction when being filmed in straight-on, passport , nostril shots in movies?
Why we continue to manufacture cars or have them made for us in a foreign country in many versions, styles, types and all designed and equipped to travel at hundreds of miles per hour with instruments on the dash to prove it, but still remain unable to build roads and to fashion traffic flow patterns which might enable us to drive at such speeds with relative safety?
Why we have devised a way of determining which movies are favorites by adding up the steadily advancing prices we pay to see them, rather than by counting the number of people of people who paid to see the film?
Why we continue to gluttonize and are fast becoming the fattest folks on the planet - if we are not already at such a shameful point?
Why we are such ready prey of con-men and con-women in our daily lives, ready and even eager, to bite at the same old bait when dangled before us again and again?
I worry at times, too, for the reason that you can sit down and and write a list of such as this faulting just about anything we do on a basis of either paucity or excess. More and more we find people who seem to think a benevolent government authority should be charged with seeing that we stay happy and content.
A.L.M. January 26, 2004 [c-319wds]
