[REFLECTION] The way we live now

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There are the same toys and things – computers, beepers, laser discs, smart phones – and the same stresses – heart attacks at forty, marital failure, and that withered,look that signals a bad case of burnout, especially among our millennials who are well-paid cyberslaves in the global business world.

Side by side with the speed with which we are able to connect through time and space is the increasing sense of isolation and loneliness. Where once we used to drop in on each other for smallAn increasing number of professionals now operate from what has been called the ‘electronic cottage.

As a woman I am certainly grateful for the invention of the refrigerator, which frees me from having to go to the market every day and spending too much time curing meats or preserving and pickling fruits and vegetables just so they last. It is not from wisdom, says Ecclesiastes, that we ask, “Why were the former days better than these?” .

Lamech, in his famous ‘Song of the Sword,’ boasts that “I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.” . His son’s inventions out of iron has enabled Lamech to avenge himself out of all proportion to the offense. With sword in hand, it was possible, even with his lesser strength, to multiply his capacity for inflicting harm.

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