These are days of two incomes, but more divorces these are times of fancier houses, but broken homes. These are times of world peace, but domestic warfare more leisure and less fun higher postage, but slower mail more kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion tall men, but short character steep in profits, but shallow relationships. We’ve become long on quantity, but short on quality. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication drive smaller cars that have bigger problems build larger factories that produce less. We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space we’ve done larger things, but not better things we’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul we’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice we write more, but learn less plan more, but accomplish less we make faster planes, but longer lines we learned to rush, but not to wait we have more weapons, but less peace higher incomes, but lower morals more parties, but less fun more food, but less appeasement more acquaintances, but fewer friends more effort, but less success. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
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We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life we’ve added years to life, not life to years. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values we fly in faster planes to arrive there quicker, to do less and return sooner we sign more contracts only to realize fewer profits we talk too much love too seldom and lie too often.
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We drink too much smoke too much spend too recklessly laugh too little drive too fast get too angry quickly stay up too late get up too tired read too seldom watch TV too much and pray too seldom. We have taller buildings but shorter tempers wider freeways but narrower viewpoints we spend more but have less we buy more but enjoy it less we have bigger houses and smaller families more conveniences, yet less time we have more degrees but less sense more knowledge but less judgement more experts, yet more problems we have more gadgets but less satisfaction more medicine, yet less wellness we take more vitamins but see fewer results. Moorehead’s 1995 collection of prayers, homilies, and monologues used in his sermons and radio broadcasts: quote:
This essay appeared under the title “The Paradox of Our Age” in Words Aptly Spoken, Dr. Bob Moorehead, former pastor of Seattle’s Overlake Christian Church (who retired in 1998 after 29 years in that post). Carlin himself died in June 2008.) The true author of the piece isn’t George Carlin, Jeff Dickson, or the Dalai Lama, nor is he anonymous. (The line about “His wife recently died” which was added to many forwarded versions referenced Brenda Carlin, the comedian’s wife, who passed away on of liver cancer.
George Carlin very emphatically denied he had had anything to do with “Paradox,” a piece he referred to as “a sappy load of shit,” and posted his comments about being associated with this essay on his own web site.
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