18/11/25
We are the Clever Ones… Right?
Each week, it is a great joy to be able to chat with my daughter. She lives in New York, and we engage in lively conversation thanks to a thing called Google Meet. We swap stories and update on family news.
This is a first-world privilege not afforded to most of the world and would not have been available to our society 50 years ago.
We’re the clever ones… right?
But the advancement of technology and medicine over the past few decades has not stopped there. O Lordy, Lordy no.
Think of the motor vehicle. It takes us from A to B and then onto 3.6 and back home again. It’s air-conditioned, plays music, and now comes with navigation devices that even the most ungeeky priest can work out and use competently. We’re the clever ones … right?
Think of the medicine and prescriptions that most of us of mature years rely on and the cleverness that was involved to test and refine these tablets to a safe and effective level. Where the clever ones … right?
And then we took travel to a whole new level where hundreds of people can get on board a tin cylinder and, in just over 24 hours, arrive on the other side of the planet. And don’t even get me started on space travel. We most certainly are the clever ones … right?
But then, if we are so clever in this age of communication and connection, how come many feel nothing but isolation and loneliness? And boy… we sure know how to start a war. But,… we’re not quite smart enough and clever enough and wise enough to know how to end a war. Perhaps we have a ways to go. Perhaps we’re not the clever ones after all.