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Feb 03, 2020, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Serpentine Leaf
But it will only last so long as we maintain it. And too many people have the mentality of "screw everybody else; it's everyone for themselves." That's the seed of worldsuck.
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But that is cyclical. If you look at how the generations go, the generations always like to go the opposite way from the last generation. So imho (and even right now) we are a flux state. The baby boomers rule and the younger generations have to deal with them. But as they die off things will change. Sometimes we need world suck so we can see how not to do it.
From looking at history I feel like history pinwheels (that is the word I like to use best). You have moments of brilliance that pushes the world forward and then, the world slides back. Typically for a generation. For example, Henry VII was far ahead of his time and pushed england forward but, his son pushed it backward. It was time of great turbulence and anyone who lived under Henry VII or Bloody Mary probably thought there was no hope for man. But then, Elizabeth I took control and had years of prosperity.
I feel like the 40s, 50, and 60s were pinwheels forward and now we are pinwheeling back.
What I feel happens is that when we pinwheel forward it provides evidence that we can be there (but maybe that generation isn't ready for it) and then the next generation is born knowing it exists and says, why aren't we doing that? They then push hard for that life and make it happen.
From my point of view I am really going to have to argue the environmental view. I just don't see it other than on TV. I was alive in the 70s and man, everything was a toxic dump. You seriously have no idea how much better it is than that time. And frankly, the world just went on an on without much of a blip. I don't know if you have ever read the book "A civil action" or seen the movie but basically this corporation just poisoned people and made an entire area a toxic waste dump. But now... that is cleaned up and there so many many more safeguards.
As for people, yes there is a problem. Not sure how we fix that one in the short term.
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