Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.
Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.
I think we get a little carried away with ourselves with sports thinking we're more important than everything else.
This is a place where trivial issues get debated passionately and important ones not at all.
