The knowledge that no move is final, that somewhere along the road the nomads will once more gather up their belongings and migrate, works against the development of relationships that are more than modular, and it means that if relationships are to be struck up at all, they had better be whipped into life quickly.

Earnest intellectuals talk bravely about “educating for change” or “preparing people for the future.” But we know virtually nothing about how to do it In the most rapidly changing environment to which man has ever been exposed, we remain pitifully ignorant of how the human animal copes.

“Pretty soon,” says Professor Eli Ginzberg of Columbia University, an expert on manpower mobility, “we’re all going to be metropolitan-type people in this country without ties or commitments to long time friends and neighbors.”

How fast should children—or adults for that matter—be expected to make and break human relationships? Perhaps there is some optimum rate that we exceed at our peril? Nobody knows. However, if to this picture of declining durations we add the factor of diversity—the recognition that each new human relationship requires a different pattern of

Without time, change has no meaning. And without change, time would stop.

Thus it has been estimated by Professor Sargant Florence in Britain that a minimum population of 1,000,000 is needed to provide a professional worker today with twenty interesting friends.

Thomas Hood, the poet of the poor, tells us that “each heart is whispering, Home, Home at last…”

Today the whole world is a fast-breaking story.

our attitudes toward things reflect basic value judgments.