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Old Jun 03, 2011, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by VenusHalley View Post
We don't need to struggle for survival... and no longer we need sense and purpose. Hedonism is tolerated and encouraged... but instead of happiness we got misery and self-destruction.
Kind of a contradiction there, isn't it? We do need sense and purpose! Otherwise...

I have been reading and doing a bit of studying of ancient civilizations -- they all seem to me to have similar characteristics, those of domination by a small elite. So our troubles in that regard are not new, not just a modern "Western" disease! Humans evolved from the other animals not necessarily good at coping with large-organization life...
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