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Where did the sense of awe go?
The sense of awe didn't go - but it now takes more to evoke it. At one time people were in awe of steam trains that could go 30 miles per hour! What excitement! Then it was cars. Then airplanes. Remember how exicting it was to watch John Glenn going into space? We were all younger then, too. Society felt younger, more optimistic. Anything was possible. Now, nothing seems possible. The war in Iraq has bogged down into as complete a fiasco as Vietnam. Airplane travel has become routinized and far too familiar for us to remain aware of the miracle it is. There is no solution. Our children will find new things to get excited about before they, too succumb to "been there, done that".