Fast Moving Society Analysis

With quicker travel, visits would be easier, but not everyone may see it that way. Steve Parker, in his excerpt, suggests that living in a fast moving society with many different types of transportation, creates more disadvantages than it does advantages. Parker supports his position by first listing examples of how these automobiles are separating us from family and causing old friends to never be seen again. He continues by comparing our generation of a fast moving society, to the close and supportive relationships of the past. The authors purpose is to point out the disadvantages and explain how they outweigh the advantages, in order to explain how a fast moving society is not as much of a good thing, as it is a bad thing. While automobiles do create the ability to move away and leave family, the

In his argument, Parker, states that “Fast moving society makes it easy for us to move away from the people and places… and often we lose track of old friends we never see again.” Parker is arguing that people have access to traveling away from friends and family, and as a result, people tend to no longer have close relationships as a result of fast moving society, caused by automobiles. However, the likelihood that someone may lose their close relationships as a result of moving away, varies depending on the person, and not everyone is going to be willing to lose track of friends and family because they moved away. Some people may move away, but make it an effort to continue sharing the close, supportive relationships, instead of letting them be lost. For the most part, people are not going to want to move away, just so that they can get away from family and friends, so most people will want to make sure they don’t lose that close