Seeing America I don’t think I can fully understand the differences between a developing and a developed nation…people are same everywhere…there are problems and challenges everywhere though their nature might differ…I think that we have developed so fast and our way of life has changed so fast that we haven’t had time to assimilate and understand these changes…we are just being swept by them…again I will quote from Steinbeck’s "Travels with Charley in search of America"..."Humans had perhaps a million years to get used to fire as a thing and as an idea. Between the time a man got his fingers burned on a lightning struck tree until another man carried some inside a cave and found it kept him warm, maybe a hundred thousand years, and from there to the blast furnaces of Detroit – how long?
And now a force was in hand how much more strong, and we hadn’t had time to develop the means to think, for man has to have feelings and then words before he can come close to thought and, in the past at least, that has taken a long time."
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