Zaborny, Phillip, Age of Understanding

Age of Understanding

Phillip Zaborny

The Dark Ages had armor and horses Swords lords and kings over courts The Middle Ages had castles and frescos Keeps of stone built by ten ton Legos A Renaissance reinvented the Romans Encouraged and believed in the humans The Romantics cherished freedom Above all–they despised tedium Under an Age of Industry–the world fed and clothed Access to the unimagined… the price undisclosed

And now, the Age of Information What do we know? Inflation, market stagnation, wars with other nations Pollution inhalation, third world damnation, a crumbling foundation Economic frustration, consumer predation

And what does one do with information? One tries to understand! This is a demand!

Of a new age The Age of Understanding Less of Adam and more of the atom On the eve of biblical proportions Know what makes the cell What an electron can tell Math and physics and that whole hell But try to understand…

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Plot data and do the calculation Because we’ve got the information Now learn to use it Understand… …a nation with education is a powerful combination

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