Feeling the affects of time and space

Wow, I felt the affects of time and space this week as I tried unsuccessfully to coordinate my history projects with looking for meaningful work. At times I felt out of sync with the rest of the world. I realized that I am not alone in feeling this way. Some might call this future shock. Others might call it a longing for a simpler time and place. I've been thinking a lot about the way technology has overwhelmed and overtaken us in so many ways. Some of it is good. I don't know anyone who doesn't like to be able to access information quickly and easily or doesn't like what technology has brought in their lives. At the same time I can't help thinking about all the people that have been left out in the cold because of it. We lost a lot when we arbitrarily decided to send all our personal information over the Internet.

I watched "Les Miserables" on Saturday and could really relate to the crowd of poor waiting for a revolution. Like those poor people, I realized that we are in the same boat as they are. We too are waiting for a revolution even though most of us don't understand what that means or how to go about it. We cry for freedom, not realizing that we gave our freedom away when we allowed the government to control our very souls. At what price you may ask.....

The price is your life. Will we fight and die for those rights?....Rights that are already gone, by the way. Or will we slink back, hide and pretend that everything is normal? Yes, it is normal to shrink back, do what is necessary and hope for the best. We all struggle with step forward. I have to ask myself would I be willing to die for what I believe?

This is where the rubber meets the road. Will we learn from history? Unfortunately I see all too often that we neglect history. We tell ourselves that what happened in the 1940s won't happen again. We won't put people aside, discriminate against them or bar them from employment. Yet we're doing it now....literally thousands of people roam the streets looking for work. No one will give them a chance. Instead they prefer to send jobs overseas and abuse the people there. Then there's the cold hard fact that if you're not pretty enough, or you've been unemployed for too long....you're unemployable.