A gizmo may bring advances in particular subjects, but so much of life does not depend upon advances.
It depends upon reaffirmations of core values such as honesty, courtesy, kindness, courage, and personal accountability.
Without those, we will become barbarians with smartphones patiently filming crimes and disasters when we're not scrolling.
It was summertime, and the living was easy for the Red Sox because Marty Rabb was throwing the ball past the New York Yankees in a style to which he'd become accustomed. I was there. In the skyview seats, drinking Miller High Life from a big paper cup, eating peanuts and having a very nice time. I wasn't supposed to be having a nice time. I was supposed to be working. But now and then you can do both.
- From Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker
