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The Age of Communication

By Ben Mester

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Published: 19Oct2009
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It's ironic to me that we call the modern era the Age of Communication. Why is that you ask? One obvious example. A lack of communication is listed as the leading cause of breakdowns in marriages and relationships. Kind of ironic to call the current age the age of communication when our current era has a higher divorce rate than has ever been before? I came across an interesting quote awhile back that I think explains this phenomena very well. "The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?" That quote is more than 3000 years old, but I think it sums up our current age of communication perfectly.

It struck me, because it reminded me a great deal of our modern era. Though in our modern era, communication abounds, with text messaging, emails, and constant updates on facebook and twitter, meaningful communication seems to be dwindling rapidly. The Age of Communication is almost like a great roar drowning out the honest, rare whispers of wise counsel that often are lost in the fray of everything else going on. Our Age of Communication seems like a sham to me — an age which knows fewer words, yet preaches them all the louder in order to make up for it, an age that has nothing new to contribute, but speaks the same dribble all the louder just to make up for it. I don't know, maybe I'm being too hard on us.

If I could liken it to something for a moment, the Age of Communication seems similar to another modern phenomenon: ambient light. There's a hilltop by my home that I often visit at night and watch the distant city beyond. There it sits, enshrouded in a glow of low-level brightness pervading all the night world. Though the ambient light is good for those traveling through the city, those wishing to gaze upward at the stars beyond are hindered and unable to take in the manifold array of tiny lights.

Our Age of Communication seems the same. Though we as humans communicate more now than ever before, we haven't learned how to communicate meaningfully, and our words are drowned in a hum of mediocrity. And because of our constant communications with those around us, we never perceive what a treasure real communication is, living a life blind to the vast array of twinkling thoughts that lies just overhead.

Thanks for reading about Ben's view of the age of communication. If you want to read more, check out his blog Things I've Learned While Roaming the Earth.

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