Mr Ferris is reminding us of how little we know about the world we live in, and how little we know about ourselves within it, and yet we persist.
Yet we now live in a society and era for whom it is a basic axiom that the success or failure of grown-up life is directly tied to the quality of the care one receives in childhood.
We live in a world filled with powerful technology that has enabled us to communicate faster and better, yet we seem to lack the simple face-to-face meeting that must take place when searching for clues and information in any type of investigation.
Which means we will have to learn to live with less and yet use it better.
Yet we still struggle every day to perfect our union and live up to our ideals.
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Yet the Beatles remain the band that we can't live and let die, doomed to be recycled as fading photocopies of the original with every incremental improvement in music technology and significant anniversary until one day we can all look forward to high-definition holograms of John, Paul, George and Ringo performing "All You Need is Love" in our living rooms.
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Over the last 30 years, there have been amazing advances in our abilities to combat human disease and equally impressive innovation within information technology that has changed the way we live, yet there has been staggeringly little application of innovation to the efficiency of our healthcare system.
America is still one of the greatest places to live, yet we turn away far too many people who could help the country financially and intellectually.
Ninety years old and still sharp as a tack, his tales of self-induced disasters are worth recalling as we live through yet another.
And I would require some accountability that I don't think that we have had, and do a thorough review of what was necessary and how we can make the transition that we haven't yet made from a Cold War apparatus to the world we live in today.
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