It's enough to make you a Confucian:

	As real missions vanish from the Earth, Mission Statements proliferate
	As real conversation becomes a memory, Communication becomes a field of college study
	As time to savor the Quality in things shrinks, we talk about Quality Time
	As the natural world is destroyed, we celebrate the Internet

I feel as if we rushed into all that.  We shouldn't have been so quick to throw some of these things out.  We should at least have made an inventory.