Connections+Reflection

Connections The entire world, especially America, has become connected. We live in a global age where with the help of phones, email, texting, instant messaging, and even snail mail we are never out of touch. The emphasis should be put on the instant in instant messaging. That said communications are just a piece of connecting. It takes two to tango… erm talk. (Do we still call it that, is that word "talk" still in our vocabularies?) “Can you do me a favor? Keep reading”. How very American of me to ask that. Perhaps what we do best as Americans is exploit these connections. Just as Judge did in “The Natural” by Bernard Malamud. The owner of a baseball team, he was in it purely for the money, and when he needed them to take a dive, their best pitcher and hitter were the connections he exploited.