Rich and restless
Vinoth Ramachandra writes: ‘The people of the modern West (and the middle class of non-Western cultures) are better fed, better housed, better equipped with health care than those in any previous age in human history. But paradoxically, they also seem to be the most fearful, the most divided, the most superstitious and the most bored generation in human history. All the labour-saving devices of modern technology have only enhanced human stress, and modern life is characterised by restless movement from place to place, from one experience to another, in a frenetic whirl of purposeless activity.’ [1]
[1] Vinoth Ramachandra, Gods That Fail: Modern Idolatry and Christian Mission (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1996), pp12–13.