Looking back

Looking back at the years surrounding my lifetime, I wonder if these will be referred to as another Dark age?

These are the years where human kind has more skill than knowledge. We developed lead pipes and asbestos and thought they were miracles of sorts until it turned out they were killers.

We had the ability to produce products of every imaginable sort without realizing we were destroying our air and atmosphere and water.

We had medicine that appeared to stop diseases, but everything we had was really only something destructive. We could kill bacteria and germs and tissue and thought that if what was left survived we had come out ahead.

We made laws that said people were all equal no matter what sex or color or religion or whatever, but our culture couldn't support them.

Our politics were not based on good government and a humane society. They were fear based and hate driven and deceptive at nearly every level. It was as if we were children and thought if no one got caught, all was well.

Lip service praised ethics, but the people worshiped money.

We considered ourselves so modern, but we were so primitive and backwards.