Quotes About Modern malady

At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define who and what we are, becomes limiting. It robs us of our wholeness and our self-sufficiency. It misses the big picture and confines us to a narrow zoom. And it leaves us at the mercy of experts.

Some of our triggers have been tagged by the British media "hurry sickness." As one columnist wrote, "People who tap their fingers impatiently as they wait for the microwave to finish or huff and puff while their computer starts up could have the latest malady to modern living — 'hurry sickness.'"13 We live life at such a fast pace that if something does not happen quickly enough, we can become indignant and sometimes enraged.