We used to be smaller. Different tongues were an oddity, something unfamiliar and mysterious. Have we lost our sense for mystery... that now we know these tongues and minds? These shades of skin have been observed, identified and classified. The world is no longer small. We travel it, know it and can thus shape it?

But did we ever understand our neighbor? Did we ever see their face? Or was it only through CNN? These are our neighbors...those we meet via Your World Today. Have we walked down our own streets to know these surburban dwellers we call familiar? Or have we ever spoken to them outside the Super Bowl and politician hating?

Have we lost contact with human beings...ourselves through human touch? The ability to be changed by interaction with other human beings? The ability to be surprised or surprise?