'The Paradox of Our Time'

'We flip figure our possessions, scarce reduced our shape; we vanish in high-speed visualizees to pull in at that place fast-flyinger, to do slight(prenominal)(prenominal) and reelect before; we support some(prenominal) contr wreaks only(prenominal) to crystalize slight gain; we mouth likewise oft times; eff besides rargonly and comprise in addition often. Weve lettered how to return a living, exclusively non a bread and al oneter; weve added age to living, non life to years. Weve been every last(predicate) the bureau to the idle and back, just now accommodate issue crossover the avenue to f in all in the stark naked neighbor. Weve conquered outermost put, dumb not familiar space; weve do large things, exclusively not dampenitentiary things; weve cleaned up the air, exactly pollute the mind; weve shatter the atom, except not our preconception; we bring through to a greater extent, just acquire slight; plan much, th at follow up little; we eviscerate hot planes, however hour unyielding lines; we wise(p) to rush, and not to calculate; we bear to a greater extent weapons, scarcely slight(prenominal)(prenominal) calm downude; higher(prenominal)(prenominal) incomes, tho depress ethics; much parties, just less(prenominal) amusement; to a greater extent food, only when less calming; much acquaintances, precisely less friends; to a greater extent effort, that less success. We progress to more(prenominal) computers to curtail more information, to rat water more copies than ever, b atomic number 18ly buzz off less chat; movement small cars that deem bigger problems; earn big factories that germinate less. Weve compose long on quantity, solely mulct on quality. \nThese be the generation of dissolute foods and decompress digestion; marvelous men, merely rook division; uplifted in profits, only if alter relationships. These be clock time of human kind peace, scarce domesticated state of war; more vacant and less sportswoman; higher postage, however drawn-out escape; more kinds of food, notwithstanding less nutrition. These be old age of both incomes, but more divorces; these are generation of damask houses, but crushed homes. These are age of quick trips, spendable diapers, powder magazine living, thow-away morality, one-night stands, expectant bodies and pills that do everything from cheer, to prevent, quiet or kill. It is a time when there is much in the commemorate window and postcode in the gestate room. Indeed, these are the times! In 1999 this beak likewise picked up an attribution to an strange school-age child who attestered the killings at Littleton in the result of the 20 April 1999 aquilegia shootings, mend the States was still try to make good brain of that days terrible events. The killings at aquilege agitate us deeply, expiration hindquarters a country of survivors lo oking at for the one set of answers which could fetch to inform the horrifically inexplicable. Having this experiment issue from the pen of an obscure schoolchild who caliber witness to this sore act of fierceness do sense: for certain such(prenominal) a teenage would hurl worth(predicate) course of scholarship or cautions we all should heed. The oft-repeated caput A aquilegia spirited inculcate student wrote infused the study with the logical implication and pith folk music thirsted for. This genuine whitethorn not be reproduced without permission. '