by j.d. stegall

Created on: February 04, 2009   Last Updated: February 08, 2009

There was a man that I heard about who loved gold. Not the precious metal, but the actual color of gold (yellow). Everything he owned was gold. All his clothes were gold, he lived in a yellow house, drove a yellow car, had yellow curtains. All of his carpet and furniture was gold. In his bedroom, he had golden lamps, yellow pillows, yellow sheets, and even a yellow television.

However, one day he got very sick and came down with yellow fever. The doctor came out to his house to treat him but he couldn't find him, so he died.

LOST IDENTITY

Our society has lost its identity just like Mr. Light Bright, the gold worshipper. This world doesn't really value true thinkers, one on one communication, nor genuine relationships. It worships technology: palm pilots, cell phones, ipods, computers, etc. The motto is "whoever has the latest is the greatest; If there's no instant gratification, it's not worth it."

Since technology allows us to be anywhere, anyone, at anytime, who has time for authentic relationships? One can live in a fantasy world and never have to really tap the glass slippers to go back home to the real world in Kansas. Great marriages, fatherhood, motherhood and business backed with an honest handshake are outdated. To a certain extent, all of those gadgets out there breed laziness.

Come on all you tech-ies out there, you're better than that.

We have thousands of car accidents daily because of people talking on cell phones and texting one another. Technology has produced a bunch of zombies, entranced by a little gadget that controls their very soul. People are no longer into fostering genuine relationships, putting others above their own needs or even praying for one another like in the good old days.

THE NEW MILLENNIUM

In the new millennium, the theme is closer to, "how much gossip and junk can I put out there on the web about someone and come out looking like a super-star? You can't even have a decent conversation with people anymore without being interrupted by a stupid cell phone, or them having to check their palm pilot welded to their hip joint every thirty seconds.

Without computers, our infrastructure would crash in an instant, which was what the whole scare of Y2k was about. Our society is built to depend on technology. Kids and a generation of adults are unable to communicate effectively anymore because X-BOX has disbursed the brain cells of millions now living in a dream world. Although technology is good for making our society more efficient and convenient,

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