Ask yourself this ...

Where has all the wisdom gone?

Huston Smith said 'we have never been so informed and never more confused about what is important'. In the modern world we have technology, such as the Internet, which maybe an excellent tool, a vehicle for transporting data, information and ideas, but it is nothing without content and even less without a filter or screen to devine the knowledge and wisdom that will point us to what is important. The more content, the more information we have the more we become overloaded, lost, ignorant and confused.

You can go all the way back to 1934 and the words of T S Eliot in the poem 'The Rock' to hear more or less the same message;

The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.