For a number of decades we, being the United States, Canada, and a very large portion of Europe, have been very excited about how with so much new technology the world is getting smaller.  I just have never been able to understand that statement, or better yet, agree with the statement.

Sure, things happen faster.  News is on 24/7, if you have cable to satellite, and it is as up-to-the-minute as is possible.  So, yes, it is fast.  A story comes to us in seconds or minutes, not a day, as a newspaper cycle might take.  And, we can send a letter electronically and the person on the other end will receive it in less than seconds.  Certainly that is faster than the US Postal System, faster than the overnight delivery services, and much faster when the mail went by stage coach and the first trains.

A truly amazing thing is that we can now watch the start of a war in real time, from the beginning.  One must admit, in the approximately 4,000 years of mans’ existence of which there is some sort of record, we can be sure that in all of those records there is one thing that man has improved on over and over again, and that is war.  We have it so we can see the first bomb drop from the perspective of the bomb.

Okay, cell phones, computers, iphones, netbooks, smart phones as compared to the “cell phone,” all are at our fingertips and we say that the world is getting smaller.

I just can’t buy that.  I think that those with money can do more and do it faster.  But, as the money keeps moving into fewer and fewer hands the world of the human race is getting larger.  How will we bridge the gap between this nations poor to this nations ever shrinking middle class.

How does paying American farmers NOT to grow a product make the world any smaller for the children of the vast lands of arid, desert in various parts of Africa.  How does not growing food help them see the world as being smaller?  I don’t get it.

The fact is that the world is dividing into two, maybe three parts.  Those who have, those who are close to having, and those who will never have whatever it is which makes one exclaim that the world is getting smaller.  Actually, if people really believed the world was getting smaller, they would better understand the toxic affect of much of mans’ doing on this planet.  It is beyond oil spills, it is beyond deforestation, and it is beyond the all too many rivers which are just plain poison.

For the shrinking number of native inhabitants of the Amazon region, well, maybe their world is getting smaller, for much of their land now has asphalt on it, while the trees which help they use for building and for finding their food are coming down faster and faster.  So, yes, maybe their world is getting smaller.

And, perhaps every time some little bug, flower, animal leaves this earth for good, this home of ours grows.  For now it is a longer way to get to the fresh water, it is becoming more difficult to fish in the seas that have fed us for thousands of years. 

Somehow, and I don’t how, caring about the creatures of this earth, the foliage of this earth, the quality of air of planet have become political issues.  How can that be?  Don’t we want to keep this place, this miracle of miracles, our home, in as good a shape as possible?  Don’t we?  Sure, to do so may mean we have to give up some things or wait on some things, but it seems that we would all want what is best for our country.

I am not picking on Christian Fundamentalists, but from the mouths of a number of their leaders, I have heard them tell us how “foolish it is to pander to those hippies” who think they know what is best for this world.  Hippies?  Really, hippies?

When I hear such babble from men who deeply believe that their God told a man named Noah to build an arch and to bring two by two all of God’s creations.  It seems to me that if this God wanted his creations to be saved, then he must still want that same thing.  I haven’t heard of Him changing his mind and saying, sure, kill off that forest and all that use it as their home.  Did I just miss this?

Okay, this posting has drifted a bit here and there, but the point, I hope is made.  The world, for most of its population is getting bigger.  It is harder and a longer walk to fill a bowl with water and carry it back on one’s head.  Eating anything from many of this world’s rivers may very well speed up the death of the hungry.  So, they go farther and farther to find the safe food.

I don’ t see how this world is getting smaller, instead I see a world where it is so large that the haves don’t even see the have nots - perhaps they know not how to look - or, they see and they pity and they move on.

For a number of decades we, being the United States, Canada, and a very large portion of Europe, have been very excited about how with so much new technology the world is getting smaller.  I just have never been able to understand that statement, or better yet, agree with the statement.

Sure, things happen faster.  News is on 24/7, if you have cable to satellite, and it is as up-to-the-minute as is possible.  So, yes, it is fast.  A story comes to us in seconds or minutes, not a day, as a newspaper cycle might take.  And, we can send a letter electronically and the person on the other end will receive it in less than seconds.  Certainly that is faster than the US Postal System, faster than the overnight delivery services, and much faster when the mail went by stage coach and the first trains.

A truly amazing thing is that we can now watch the start of a war in real time, from the beginning.  One must admit, in the approximately 4,000 years of mans’ existence of which there is some sort of record, we can be sure that in all of those records there is one thing that man has improved on over and over again, and that is war.  We have it so we can see the first bomb drop from the perspective of the bomb.

Okay, cell phones, computers, iphones, netbooks, smart phones as compared to the “cell phone,” all are at our fingertips and we say that the world is getting smaller.

I just can’t buy that.  I think that those with money can do more and do it faster.  But, as the money keeps moving into fewer and fewer hands the world of the human race is getting larger.  How will we bridge the gap between this nations poor to this nations ever shrinking middle class.

How does paying American farmers NOT to grow a product make the world any smaller for the children of the vast lands of arid, desert in various parts of Africa.  How does not growing food help them see the world as being smaller?  I don’t get it.

The fact is that the world is dividing into two, maybe three parts.  Those who have, those who are close to having, and those who will never have whatever it is which makes one exclaim that the world is getting smaller.  Actually, if people really believed the world was getting smaller, they would better understand the toxic affect of much of mans’ doing on this planet.  It is beyond oil spills, it is beyond deforestation, and it is beyond the all too many rivers which are just plain poison.

For the shrinking number of native inhabitants of the Amazon region, well, maybe their world is getting smaller, for much of their land now has asphalt on it, while the trees which help they use for building and for finding their food are coming down faster and faster.  So, yes, maybe their world is getting smaller.

And, perhaps every time some little bug, flower, animal leaves this earth for good, this home of ours grows.  For now it is a longer way to get to the fresh water, it is becoming more difficult to fish in the seas that have fed us for thousands of years. 

Somehow, and I don’t how, caring about the creatures of this earth, the foliage of this earth, the quality of air of planet have become political issues.  How can that be?  Don’t we want to keep this place, this miracle of miracles, our home, in as good a shape as possible?  Don’t we?  Sure, to do so may mean we have to give up some things or wait on some things, but it seems that we would all want what is best for our country.

I am not picking on Christian Fundamentalists, but from the mouths of a number of their leaders, I have heard them tell us how “foolish it is to pander to those hippies” who think they know what is best for this world.  Hippies?  Really, hippies?

When I hear such babble from men who deeply believe that their God told a man named Noah to build an arch and to bring two by two all of God’s creations.  It seems to me that if this God wanted his creations to be saved, then he must still want that same thing.  I haven’t heard of Him changing his mind and saying, sure, kill off that forest and all that use it as their home.  Did I just miss this?

Okay, this posting has drifted a bit here and there, but the point, I hope is made.  The world, for most of its population is getting bigger.  It is harder and a longer walk to fill a bowl with water and carry it back on one’s head.  Eating anything from many of this world’s rivers may very well speed up the death of the hungry.  So, they go farther and farther to find the safe food.

I don’ t see how this world is getting smaller, instead I see a world where it is so large that the haves don’t even see the have nots - perhaps they know not how to look - or, they see and they pity and they move on.


For a number of decades we, being the United States, Canada, and a very large portion of Europe, have been very excited about how with so much new technology the world is getting smaller.  I just have never been able to understand that statement, or better yet, agree with the statement.

Sure, things happen faster.  News is on 24/7, if you have cable to satellite, and it is as up-to-the-minute as is possible.  So, yes, it is fast.  A story comes to us in seconds or minutes, not a day, as a newspaper cycle might take.  And, we can send a letter electronically and the person on the other end will receive it in less than seconds.  Certainly that is faster than the US Postal System, faster than the overnight delivery services, and much faster when the mail went by stage coach and the first trains.

A truly amazing thing is that we can now watch the start of a war in real time, from the beginning.  One must admit, in the approximately 4,000 years of mans’ existence of which there is some sort of record, we can be sure that in all of those records there is one thing that man has improved on over and over again, and that is war.  We have it so we can see the first bomb drop from the perspective of the bomb.

Okay, cell phones, computers, iphones, netbooks, smart phones as compared to the “cell phone,” all are at our fingertips and we say that the world is getting smaller.

I just can’t buy that.  I think that those with money can do more and do it faster.  But, as the money keeps moving into fewer and fewer hands the world of the human race is getting larger.  How will we bridge the gap between this nations poor to this nations ever shrinking middle class.

How does paying American farmers NOT to grow a product make the world any smaller for the children of the vast lands of arid, desert in various parts of Africa.  How does not growing food help them see the world as being smaller?  I don’t get it.

The fact is that the world is dividing into two, maybe three parts.  Those who have, those who are close to having, and those who will never have whatever it is which makes one exclaim that the world is getting smaller.  Actually, if people really believed the world was getting smaller, they would better understand the toxic affect of much of mans’ doing on this planet.  It is beyond oil spills, it is beyond deforestation, and it is beyond the all too many rivers which are just plain poison.

For the shrinking number of native inhabitants of the Amazon region, well, maybe their world is getting smaller, for much of their land now has asphalt on it, while the trees which help they use for building and for finding their food are coming down faster and faster.  So, yes, maybe their world is getting smaller.

And, perhaps every time some little bug, flower, animal leaves this earth for good, this home of ours grows.  For now it is a longer way to get to the fresh water, it is becoming more difficult to fish in the seas that have fed us for thousands of years. 

Somehow, and I don’t how, caring about the creatures of this earth, the foliage of this earth, the quality of air of planet have become political issues.  How can that be?  Don’t we want to keep this place, this miracle of miracles, our home, in as good a shape as possible?  Don’t we?  Sure, to do so may mean we have to give up some things or wait on some things, but it seems that we would all want what is best for our country.

I am not picking on Christian Fundamentalists, but from the mouths of a number of their leaders, I have heard them tell us how “foolish it is to pander to those hippies” who think they know what is best for this world.  Hippies?  Really, hippies?

When I hear such babble from men who deeply believe that their God told a man named Noah to build an arch and to bring two by two all of God’s creations.  It seems to me that if this God wanted his creations to be saved, then he must still want that same thing.  I haven’t heard of Him changing his mind and saying, sure, kill off that forest and all that use it as their home.  Did I just miss this?

Okay, this posting has drifted a bit here and there, but the point, I hope is made.  The world, for most of its population is getting bigger.  It is harder and a longer walk to fill a bowl with water and carry it back on one’s head.  Eating anything from many of this world’s rivers may very well speed up the death of the hungry.  So, they go farther and farther to find the safe food.

I don’ t see how this world is getting smaller, instead I see a world where it is so large that the haves don’t even see the have nots - perhaps they know not how to look - or, they see and they pity and they move on.