It's ironic to me that we call the modern era the Age of
Communication. Why is that you ask? One obvious example.
A lack of communication is listed as the leading cause of
breakdowns in marriages and relationships. Kind of ironic
to call the current age the age of communication when our
current era has a higher divorce rate than has ever been
before? I came across an interesting quote awhile back
that I think explains this phenomena very well. "The more
the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit
anyone?" That quote is more than 3000 years old, but I
think it sums up our current age of communication perfectly.
It hit me in that it reminded me of our current age.
Though in the current age, communication is everywhere,
emails, texts, facebook, and twitter, conversation that's
actually meaningful seems to have almost completely set
sail. The Age of Communication is almost like a great roar
drowning out the honest, rare whispers of wise counsel that
often are lost in the fray of everything else going on.
Our Age of Communication seems like a sham to me — an
age which knows fewer words, yet preaches them all the
louder in order to make up for it, an age that has nothing
new to contribute, but speaks the same dribble all the
louder just to make up for it. I don't know, maybe I'm
being too hard on us.
The Age of Communication seems very close to another modern
phenomenon: ambient light. There's a little hill out by my
home that I often sit on at night to watch the twinkling,
distant city below. There it sits, enshrouded in a glow of
low-level brightness pervading all the night world. Though
the ambient light is good for those traveling through the
city, those wishing to gaze upward at the stars beyond are
hindered and unable to take in the manifold array of tiny
lights.
Our Age of Communication seems the same. Even though
humanity communicates more now than it ever has before, it
hasn't yet learned how to make the bulk of its
communications meaningful, and our words often get lost in
the vast humdrum of mediocrity. And because of our
constant communications with those around us, we never
perceive what a treasure real communication is, living a
life blind to the vast array of twinkling thoughts that
lies just overhead.
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