progression/regression

sometimes i wonder which way we as a human race are going. on the outside, it looks like we're all improving. cars are safer, internet is faster, we're more "connected."

but really, are we as individuals improving? before i had a cell phone, i was a human phone book. before they let us use calculators in school, i could actually do math in my head. and before facebook, i had to use some sort of social skills to talk to people in real life. now, instead of using the brain that God gave me, i rely on machines to do things for me.

i can't put it more eloquently than this: