watching our children for cues on how to speak, what to wear, when to laugh, even how to perceive the actions of others.
Well, welcome to the 21st century. We are all immigrants to a new territory. Our world is changing so rapidly that we can hardly track the differences, much less cope with them. Whether it's call-waiting, MTV, digital cash, or fuzzy logic, we are bombarded every day with an increasing number of words, devices, ideas, and events we do not understand. On a larger scale, the cultural institutions on which have grown dependent -- organized religion, our leaders and heroes, the medical establishment, corporate employers, even nation states and the family itself -- appear to have crumbled under their own weight, and all within the same few decades. Without having migrated an inch, we have, nonetheless, travelled further than any generation in history.
