If there is a downside to technology, it is justifying impatience. “I want it and I want it NOW!” The idea that some things take time feels like a violation to many of us. It all started with the TV dinner and microwaves! (No official validation of that, just my opinion.)
Competition seems to bring the best and worst out of us. The best, digging deep for our talents and the desire to manifest the best. The worst, cheating, inability to compromise and yes, impatience.
This is another pandemic (next to our friend Covid 19). In politics it leads to character assassination and polarization. The biased news programs are revolting and give me (more) anxiety. As the midterm elections approach, the heated exchange between our major parties is escalating into transparent self-interest at the expense of the Great Experiment which is our floundering USA. Most of us are distracted by our micro-lives and may not see that the attitudes filter down to our experiences of life.
There has been a reactive swing in our culture toward meditation and a search for inner peace. Nature goes on despite our blind foolishness, so many seek solace in the depth of green forests, the rhythms of the ocean or the peaks that mirror an overview of life.
As we run headlong into the next thing, the passionless voices of on-line “helpers” such as Alexa and Siri, remind me of HAL in 2001 Space Odyssey. I that movie, the computer goes rogue during space travel and the humans on board lose control of their mission. Let us not lose control of OUR mission in a frenzy of impatience.
With love,
Rosanne
