Years ago when Brian was doing some research through old newspapers of the 1960s, he was struck by how many businesses were celebrating “their 100th year” in business. It seemed like you couldn’t pick up a paper or magazine without some local establishment making this boast. Family businesses were truly FAMILY businesses. Children took over from their parents, grandchildren from their parents, and on and on. Businesses grew slowly, if at all, but what business they had was stable, predictable, and reliable. Their suppliers were often in business as long or longer than they were. Things changed slowly, if at all. And when they did change, it was considered progress with an expectation for improvement, otherwise WHY CHANGE? Store layouts often never changed for a century or more. For a place like a hardware store, this was important so things could be located quickly. But now frequent change is the norm. Was this movement away from this kind of stability inevitable with progress? What can Creator tell us?

Historians see such contrasts with regularity and are actually manipulated with mind control to see this as a sign of progress, that the old ways are no more. Being simpler, slower paced, less complex, with easier roles and goals and accomplishments to master, life was simpler then. The average person is so conditioned by mind control manipulation to see rapid change as a sign of progress, that this bucolic atmosphere of yore seems quaint, outmoded, and somehow a kind of embarrassment knowing how much more efficient and progressive the Modern Era would become in contrast. We side with the old-time perspective, that humans were made to take time and smell the roses, not to be constantly on the go, piling on the work, ratcheting up timeline demands and deadlines to pressure people in squeezing more work out of them. Here again, you are victims of a carrot-on-a-stick approach, the lure of growing collective wealth, greater technological capability and sophistication of the culture bringing a wider and wider array of goods and services to delight the senses and reward people increasingly, in having such a wide spectrum of choices, are all enticements created cynically to draw people into a kind of deception, that a faster life is a better life and a more rewarding one. In truth, it benefits the elites who make more money with a faster production line, a more efficient and quick design team to bring on new product lines as an expansion and grow the revenue. The most profound contrast we could draw here, for your benefit in putting this into perspective, is something we have told you before, that humans and other physical beings were designed to not need technology at all because you were launched into worlds where you simply fit in and had everything you needed in abundance. Yet, gradually this seeming "evolution" has profoundly changed human culture from the simple ways of the past where people lived close to the land and off of the land directly. It is just as true today that you truly do not need technology, given you are capable of living as was done long ago, not that an overnight change would be easy. The fact it seems like a change for the worse, and even abhorrent, we would say is a measure of how addicted to technology and the trappings of modern life have become for you. People cannot imagine waking up and not having a cell phone or a tablet at their side to look at what is streaming in cyberspace, yet these devices were not even in existence a few decades ago and they alone have greatly changed society, and for the worse, we would say. People are no longer in touch with their own lives because they are so often focused on what is being viewed on a screen depicting someone else's life or idea of what is important to know or focus on. This makes everyone a passive receiver of the cyberbabble that passes as culture. In actuality, life lived once removed in cyberspace is a poor semblance of the real thing and not a substitute for true human closeness.