Has modern technology helped us to be better people?

A character in The Truth Teller by Angel Hunt is pretty disgusted with the state of the human race. He says: “… By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has created an abyss of boredom and stupidity that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations ever plumbed. The average blue-collar worker has… Read More

What are you busy with?

“I figure I have a choice; I can get busy living or get busy dying.” This is one of my favorite lines from Shawshank Redemption. Andy, falsely convicted of his wife’s murder, has somehow managed to hang on to hope during 20 years of incarceration. Unexpected information makes a retrial possible, but this opportunity is violently thwarted. Andy goes a… Read More