I was sitting at the Grey Havens in my comfy chair, hosting an upper respiratory virus, feeling a bit like one of the lines in "Steel Magnolias," and reading What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe and had a minor epiphany again. Howe points out how the vast changes in transportation in America positively affected the literacy of Americans all over the land as reading materials were more available and how that changed the way people looked at politics on a larger rather than local scale.
It occurred to me that the insatiable longing for more and more information and "socializing" on the Internet that we experience here in 2008 is the logical extension, not necessarily conclusion, to Adam and Eve's taking the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil so they could become like God, as Satan so deftly suggested. Think about it, you can research and "know" any subject, good and evil, in a multiplicity of websites...."God" gets 547,000,000 sites on Google, "Jesus" gets 212,000,000, "Satan" gets 42,100,000,and "sex" gets 732,000,000...why am I not surprised?!! (Tip of the hat to Iago in "Aladdin's Lamp.") People have certainly taken to heart (and other organs) the dictate to go forth and multiply.
Well, even though Algore claims to have invented it, I'm claiming Adam and Eve are responsible for it...EEEUUUUWWW, I'M CONFLICTED...AND A VICTIM!!!;P
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