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By Ben Jones
Rappahannock News Writer
My neighbor Tom, who shall remain nameless, has side by side in his backyard two perfect symbols of the essence of the twentieth century. The last hundred years were, among many other things, a century of astonishing change, breathtaking discoveries, and life changing progress.
In 1903, Orville Wright flew a “flying machine” for 12 seconds on a windy dune at Kitty Hawk. By 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. The exponential knowledge of mankind intensifies its growth rate explosively; as if some critical mass has been ' reached in what Jung called the “collective unconscious”. (I just threw in that last sentence to see if you were on your toes and to make some use of the years I spent sleeping on a college campus).
Anyhow, one of the things Tom has on the hillside behind his place is a satellite dish, which, like mine, hooks him up with hundreds of channels he never watches. We are all empowered now, empowered with technology that was unthinkable only 30 years ago. At least, I never thought about it. Now, we can watch Polish soap operas, ranting televangelists, and countless offers to sell you more channels. By the way, Canadian television is the perfect cure for insomnia. It doesn’t matter what show. It will do the job.
Next to his satellite dish (which I am told is the state flower of Alabama) is some
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