I was driving home from work today, and a large gaggle of adolescents were meandering down the sidewalks of Fessenden waiting expectantly for the bus.  Every single teenager stared dumbly down at their stupid phone, tapping out messages on their inane touch-screens, neck bent, mouth open, almost drooling as they anxiously awaited some proferred prophetic piece of disinformation, some anonymous disingenuous ping, some graphically moronic thumbs up sign.  What have we come to?  What state of inhuman inanity is this?  And more importantly, where the hell are we going?  Where could all this inconvenient technology take us?

I have noticed that the majority of the younger people I work with have very little personality, very little charm.  They don't speak when spoken to.  They do not smile.  They appear meek, timid, and immature, like children lost in the wilderness of reality, too afraid to confront their fears, too afraid to gaze into the darkness.  When I was there age I lived my life by three tenets- strength, effort, and discipline.  I tried to live as an honorable man (still do), treating others as I would have them treat me.  These misguided adults do not know the first thing about communication or patience; let alone an ancient concept known as common decency.  

Jesus wept.