Why does Les compare today's busyness to life before the flood?
Today's relentless activity mirrors the pre-flood world because constant busyness crowds out any thought of God's coming judgment. Before the flood, people were so intensely occupied they had no time to consider the coming wrath; now families are so busy with activities they neglect the Word, repeating the same pattern.
Les compares today's busyness to life before the flood because he sees the same spiritual danger: people are consumed by constant activity and have no time to think about God's coming judgment. He notes an article by a child psychologist describing kids pressured by schoolwork, soccer, football, baseball, golf, drama, and music, with parents busy keeping them busy. While those activities are not wrong in themselves, the result is no time for the Word, and children are not being taught the Word. Les says this is exactly how it was before the flood: they were so busy and in such intense activity that they had no time to think about the coming wrath of God in the way of the flood. He concludes, “here we are, not one bit different.”