The Modern Tragedy

In the year 1800, our ancestors had to work hard to survive. The middle class citizen had to choose between working and starving. In the United States today, there isn't a stark choice between working and starving. Soup kitchens provide food as long as people can get to them. Often parents provide for their children long past the age at which children can provide for themselves. The modern tragedy is not physical starvation; it is mental starvation. An idle course is the natural course for most people. Laziness used to be inhibited by necessity; now it is a disease that is fed by technology. Technological time-wasters are an easy addiction. People are forgetting how to work and a dearth of work is destroying the human spirit.