These two composite photos are indicative of our present society and how it has evolved over the past 50 years. We all remember the days when we played games together, those board games at home, Snakes and Ladders, Scrabble, Chess, Monopoly and so many others, until Atari arrived on the scene. Then video-games took over our lives, as Pacman, Super Mario and Pokémon became household names. I remember my nephews waiting for my luggage coming from New York to find their Game-Boy cartridges to show off to their friends, mostly to tease them as they were the only ones who had them now that Uncle Julian arrived for a few days rest. And as the new millennium came along, people started to become more solitary, heads down clicking on the cell-phones and mobile phones.
And as young children were given their own cell-phone, communication between children and their parents became a major problem. As accessible and as convenient lap-tops, IPads and cell phones are, they are also creating divisions within families as the universal call has now been issued to deny children younger than 16 to own a cell-phone. We will wait and see how things will continue to develop. Just like climate change, social media has become as lethally dangerous just as the Cold War and nuclear threat have been in the past 60 years. May God help us as we pray for a solution to this ever-growing concern.
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