Halcyon Days

To someone who lived a hundred years ago, which is only recently, this world would seem like heaven itself. We can drink tomato juice above the clouds. Our teeth no longer rot. Our children no longer die after a slight fever. Milk is free of contaminants. And there is as much bread as we want. We are no longer burned at the stake just because we have a different opinion. Harvests are computer-controlled and harvested with pinpoint accuracy. And some of us are so fat that we need larger coffins. Everything we eat has to be shrink-wrapped and double-packaged, because otherwise we would die of deadly infections. A tenth of us are in prison, and unfortunately we can't build new ones fast enough. We bomb other countries, most of which most of us don't even know where to find on a map. Our plastic cups and plastic shoes float in the sea and reappear in breast milk on other continents. We greedily carry black boxes around with us everywhere we go, entertaining ourselves with them all day long and even using them to receive messages from other people in foreign countries so far away that we could never reach them in a lifetime on horseback. And as if seedless melons weren't enough to make us happy, now there are even square ones. They no longer roll stupidly across the kitchen table. They are incredibly expensive, but good technology. And we have moving boxes made of sheet metal in which we spend half our lives. In search of the Holy Grail. And money makes everything even better. So in other words - would I say that things are going well?