i need to take this call

live long

enough and you can compare

fifty years

ago to now.

even further back.

are things better, are things

worse

than they ever were?

are there still wars,

still inequality,

still crime and injustice.

still poverty

and loneliness,

yes, tenfold and more.

so what's the deal?

what have we learned

with these

precious phones in our hands?

pretty much

nothing.

it's the same as it ever was,

maybe worse.

hold on,

i need to take this call.