It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.

As I was reading the novel on iBooks I couldn't help saying to myself the above wording presciently describe our current affair. We are in the age of anxiety, in the age of uncertainty, in the age of lost confidence, in the age of instantaneous satisfaction, in the age of iPhone and Android, in the age of Google and Facebook,  in the age of netflix and itunes, in the age of super rich and absolutely poor and everything between, in the age of gene modified corn, salmon, in the age of organic food, in the age that we have everything and in the age we have nothing indeed. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

Here is Mr.Dickens again:

It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

-- Charles Dickens,  A Tale of Two Cities

Because we're going to sell them cheap books and legal addictive stimulants. In the meantime, we'll just put up a big sign: "Coming soon: a FoxBooks superstore and the end of civilization as you know it."

-- You've Got Mail, by Joe Fox

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