Oblivious

I didn't even realize that CNY was this week @_@. Thanks, Quail. 

But as a new year has passed, I started pondering all the advancements of humanity.

Just twenty years ago, creating nearly-living organic molecules that perform almost lifelike processes would have been the stuff of cheesy, $2-million profit sci-fi movies. Students would be lucky to own a tape Walkman--meanwhile, many of my peers carry their iPhones and iTouches around school while they let their obsolete iPod Nanos rot at home. A plasma screen TV and and average of 2.71* computers per household was the stuff of a hyperactive imagination. Britney Spears' oscillations between insanity and "queen of pop comeback" would not have been the hot topic of discussion. Fifteen-year old stars like Selena Gomez wouldn't be featured in films that contain not-so-subtly sexual moments (All right, I admit it. I caught some of Another Cinderella Story last night when I was bumming around, procrastinating piano). 

On the other hand, we may just be digging in our fingernails as we slide backwards down the muddy slope, achieving a few worthy distinctions, but, for the most part, being inexorably drawn back into the primordial cesspools where we originated from. 

*Ok, I made that up. But it sounds reasonable.