Consider the great inventions in history when they were first announced. Most of us marvel at new things and suggest we live in the greatest of ages.
Lately, I've been looking back on my life and thought of things I've witnessed that younger folks would think happened in the Dark Ages. Old Timers easily recall Saturday mornings as we kids sat around the radio listening to our favorite shows. Then along came television in the Fifties. "Whatever could be wrong with television, we thought"? Well, when Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957 the TV cameras were not allowed to show his person below the hips; Elvis the Pelvis and all that. No, not much could go bad with television except cable came along.
Watch the Comedy Channel some night. It's a series of blips, one after another; F this and F that. Tune into the Sundance Channel. Last night Lizzie and I watched a movie and a buxom young lady said the F word a lot, sans blip.
The same goes for computers. Initially, and Al Gore told us so, the computer would change mankind forever. He was correct. I'm the first to admit I'm addicted to the computer but what I'm not addicted to is pornography. The number one site(s) on the net are pornographic. The lives and marriages it has destroyed are incalculable not to mention the amount of dollars it takes out of personal pocketbooks.
I read a story a year ago that The Villages, Florida has the highest rate of STD's in the United States. Maybe God is smarter than we think and He had a good reason for male menopause. Until Viagra came along little or no natural sex after 60 was a given .
Every invention can be created for good but it's 50/50 that the devil has an opportunity to do his work, too. Free choice is a fabulous concept but we should always know that temptation comes with changes and new inventions.
This brings me to the latest change. Won't it be interesting to witness the ramifications brought on by the elimination of, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". There will be lawsuits, changes in laws and changes in lifestyles that will become acceptable when six months ago they weren't. And they won't be limited to the Armed Forces. There are going to be changes that none of us can anticipate and some activist lawyer will initiate it. Marriage between a man and his loving pooch? You laugh but there will to be something in some legal code, California is a good choice, to bring it on. Then when it happens we'll look back and ask, "what is this world coming to", as we did in the Fifties.
By the way, did you know my mother-in-law was a flapper in the 1920's? Her poor, poor parents! They must have thought the world was coming to an end.
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