Information: Our Nation’s Addiction

The world wide web myspace, smoking, drinking, T.V., you name it. Our nation is addicted. It is human nature to be addicted. Do we choose our addictions or do they choose us? Is it in our genes? Who knows? But the fact that we are a nation of addicts remains. National addiction to war. National addiction to the soap operas of other people’s lives. National addiction to the tragedies of the day we find on the ten o’clock news. When does it become an addiction? Today we face as a nation, the ever growing reality of technological over-stimulation. With the bombardment of information inherent in the invention of the internet, the nation has become addicted to, what else, information. But that is human nature right? Even biblical nature. Ever since Eve ate that apple from the Tree of Knowledge, mankind has been hungry for more. We, as a nation, cannot get enough information! It runs our lives! Since we now have worlds of information at our fingertips, we have come up with even more questions.

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