The Silence of Inconvenience

We are now in the age of convenience. The entire path of technological advances tread by the human race has been rising steadily to this present climax. Nearly every person's life is simplified by some sort of modern convenience. Whther it's a simple lamp on a desk on the computer sitting next to it, there is no doubt that these technologies have made for simpler lives. But is it for the better?

Some of the first outsiders to live in the New World of America were the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay. they led the laborious lives. Before the crack of dawn, most of the citizens were up and about, beginning the day's long list of tasks. There were no "shortcuts," no flipping of lighswitches or pushing of buttons. Everything had to be done by hand. This is how it had always been.

These quiet, but certainly not careless days were soon forgotten. America gained influence in the world and began to catch up with modern technology. As the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries rolled by, these advancements gained speed. By 1920, the country was obsessed with the newest purchase. Catalogues flew off the presses as demands for selection increased. Housewives could suddenly finish the laundry with the push of a button. The dark Puritan days were gone these were the Roaring Twenties.

Life in America became easier, yes, but was it better? Everyone seems a willing advocate of technology, but deep down there is a yearning for the quiet days. Amidst the se of this new age, we hve become deaf. If we for one moment muted the roar of technology, perhaps we would enjoy the silence of inconvenience.