So now as we make our way cut off from this experience of our ancestors when they gazed across the universe, lo, religion has shrunk to a sideshow. A materialistic society has spread its grasp. It's gospel is the here and now. Buy and be happy. So much now contrives to keep our eye on the bottom line.
Television is obsessed by merchandise.
We know information, facts, all kinds of the stuff, but little knowledge or wisdom. Our stars, the ones we follow, they live in Hollywood. You've heard all this before. And then away from our civilisation for two of the fifty-two weeks, sitting out among the stars, our eyes wincing from the cataclysm of them, our souls shied by the import of them, we glance up quickly, mention their beauty, and resume our conversation of the whatnot.