To Marvel at Travel
This morning I woke up in tiny Beloit, Wisconsin, a speck on the map of glorified empires and dominating metropoli. At the end of the day, I find myself in equally diminutive North Arlington, New Jersey, a meaningless town to most people. And yet I went through and used the commercial and technological advantages of two of the most important and largest cities in the United States and the world in order to do that.
It is something of an awe-inspiring realization to come across how easy and carefree it is to wake up in a place so familiar to me and fall asleep at the end of the day in a different place so familiar to me, and for those places to be separated by more than 800 miles. It is almost absurd to think I traveled that distance in less than six hours.
One hundred years ago, nobody could do that, even if he or she had the most money in the world. It just goes to show how privileged we are in this 21st century to take for granted the extreme advances in technology others have suffered through to make it easier for the rest of us. If you really think about that, you have to realize the relevance and the importance of modifying your own behavior for the sake of the advancement of our society. If nobody pioneered to try and send electricity through wires, we would not have cellular telephones, a needless object that by today's standard, plays a vital role, and my opinion, a consistent nuisance, in our society as a whole. This is why it is important that you as a consumer, learn to understand technology and its role in your life and the lives of those around you. It is too important to take for granted why that plastic wrapper is there, how it got there, and what its effects are for you to just open it, chuck it, and leave it be. If you don't take the necessary time and thought to ponder over the wondrous advances and roles of our technology, how can you possibly consider yourself worthy enough to use it?
We, as human beings, are the only creatures on this earth that have the power to change our surroundings. Use it wisely. Take advantage of the efforts those who have come before you have put themselves through for your own benefit. Don't let it go to waste. There is no telling how much we could accomplish nor how long we have left to do it.
It is something of an awe-inspiring realization to come across how easy and carefree it is to wake up in a place so familiar to me and fall asleep at the end of the day in a different place so familiar to me, and for those places to be separated by more than 800 miles. It is almost absurd to think I traveled that distance in less than six hours.
One hundred years ago, nobody could do that, even if he or she had the most money in the world. It just goes to show how privileged we are in this 21st century to take for granted the extreme advances in technology others have suffered through to make it easier for the rest of us. If you really think about that, you have to realize the relevance and the importance of modifying your own behavior for the sake of the advancement of our society. If nobody pioneered to try and send electricity through wires, we would not have cellular telephones, a needless object that by today's standard, plays a vital role, and my opinion, a consistent nuisance, in our society as a whole. This is why it is important that you as a consumer, learn to understand technology and its role in your life and the lives of those around you. It is too important to take for granted why that plastic wrapper is there, how it got there, and what its effects are for you to just open it, chuck it, and leave it be. If you don't take the necessary time and thought to ponder over the wondrous advances and roles of our technology, how can you possibly consider yourself worthy enough to use it?
We, as human beings, are the only creatures on this earth that have the power to change our surroundings. Use it wisely. Take advantage of the efforts those who have come before you have put themselves through for your own benefit. Don't let it go to waste. There is no telling how much we could accomplish nor how long we have left to do it.
posted by Leland J. Fischer at 1:23 AM
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