From Pompeii To Today, We Are Still The Same
As you grow older it seems like events increasingly mark age. They are like a highlighter illuminating a moment of our existence. Today I opened an article that explained to me that on this day in 1967 the Beatles released Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. I would have been 20 days old. If you tried to explain this album to young people today it would be as mythical as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Hell even people of my generation are often disconnected, post Beatle remnants. Technology is the most vulnerable to rapid change and a lack of understanding from one generation to the next. Often words can become meaningless or non-sensical in just twenty years time. I often make a joke when I hear a phone ringing that increasingly no one understands. The ring sounds and I yell “I’ll get it.” In the era of cellular telephones attached to everyone of this who understands. When I was young we had a single telephone in the house we all shared. When a phone call came in some