are we drowning in too much information...

...that our attention spans have become so short and we feel like a goldfish swimming from one end to another but never finding what we're looking for...?
...that we tend to view a movie to be too long if it ran for about 2.5 hours... and we say a good movie that says it all has a length of 1.5 hours...? in the 50's when celluloid was a fairly new technology, the length of a regular movie was around 3 hours, and we wonder how our grandparents were able to sit through the whole thing...!
...that we think sending/ replying to about a dozen emails is a task! back when the internet was but a concept, we did everything by hand, and foot... we sent letters to my dad, write a draft (complete with corrections and erasures, if we used a pen) and re-write it on a clean sheet of stationery or designer paper, place it in an envelope, go to the post office and mail it... looking back (it wasn't even that bad then), we have it good now, but we still complain when we have to answer tons of emails...
...that we use the words and machines that have "automated", "diy", "electronic transfers", like modern day nannies... when did the word self-care mean anything but your physical abitlities without the help of machines...?
...that we can't sit and listen to a song more that 3.5 minutes long...? when i was in college, life was a concert featuring suites & concertos more that 8 minutes long... and yes, i was able to sit through them without the least bit feeling fidgety!
...that in every other food we buy, the word "instant" is a requirement... instant coffee, instant mami noodles, instant juice drink, instant viand mixes... instant death by preservatives...?
...that we think the latest and hottest fashion look like riff-raff and rags, clothes now are called rags... back in the old days, a rag only meant one thing -- a piece of cloth used to wipe out dirt...

...wild no? ran out of things to say, so...