Several years ago, there was an Adam Sandler movie called “Click.”

On the surface it was the perfect story line. An executive acquired what looks like a generic remote control that can be purchased at any given retail store. The remote allows the character to zoom past all of the difficult, uncomfortable or otherwise uninteresting chapters of life; like reading every other chapter of an epic novel and expecting to feel satisfied with the last few sentences.

In this particular adventure, he began hitting the fast forward button more than the channel selector on his television remote. In...