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DAN (daniel.danoffre@total.com) wrote:
: The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings,
: but  shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; 

People these days hae wider viewpoints than ever.

: We have bigger houses and smaller families;

Well unless you count the rich in the old days, who had massive houses,
and modestly sized families...

: more conveniences, but less 
: time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less
: judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less 
: wellness.

OK are you forgetting cholera, the black death, the plague, etc.?? 

: We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.  We talk
: too  much, love too seldom, and hate too often.  We've learned how to
: make a  living, but not a life; We've added years to life, not life to
: years.

: We've done larger things, but not better things;  

We've done better things! What would you consider a good thing? Mother
Teresa? Mahatma Ghandi?

: We've
: cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; We've split the atom, but
: not  our prejudice; 

We are less prejudiced now than we ever have been , thanks to education

: We write more, but learn less; 

The only way we learn less, is when there is left less to learn because we
already know! Otherwise, improved educational system means we learn more
than we did...

We plan more, but
: accomplish  less.

WHAT?!!!

: We've learned to rush, but not to wait; We have higher incomes, but
: lower  morals; We have more food, but less appeasement; We build more
: computers  to hold more information to produce more copies than ever,
: but have less  communication; We've become long on quantity, but short
: on quality.

: These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and
: short  character; steep profits, shallow relationships,and fancier
: houses, but  broken homes.

That has always been the case.

My God you are a depressing pessimistic chap....