Are we any better off?
After hundreds of millennia, I mean. Do our demons still shape us as in the past?
This psychological adolescence is a long one to be true. We take one step forward only to take 3 steps back, falling into old very predictable traps.
We seem to be more tolerant of other species than we were before and less tolerant of our own. We go to war for just as ridiculous reasons as we did before and we ravage each other with utter delight. The same people who give their wealth for supposedly good causes control us beyond belief. Our everyday lives are more violent than ever. We seem to love our comic book movies just as much as our horror movies. Is that because we love to be scared just as much as we love to kill each other? What ever seems to get the adrenalin going works for us, I guess. Our love of soap operas has now become main stream as we look at TV more than ever before. Our kids are fatter than they have ever been because they play video games all the time for some release, that is, a violent release. We have now spoiled our kids so much that they don’t want to get physical at all, except to beat on other kids.
We seem to worry more about global warming than killing thousands of Muslims around the world. We recycle plastic but can’t seem to get off the oil for energy loop that pollutes the world.
The prices of everything in America are rising rapidly except for what Wal-Mart sells. The China wakeup call is everywhere, but we don’t seem to get the picture. We just use our credit cards more and more. We don’t want to do physical work anymore, but we complain about the only people willing to do it, Mexicans.
We save the whales and polar bears, but sue our neighbors at the drop of a hat. We do much worse to anyone who is of a different religion or tribe.
We have politicians that write laws of 400 pages or more and read only a one page synopsis of them and then vote on them. Can anyone but a lawyer understand our system of laws and have we asked ourselves lately how many lawyers have our interests at heart.
We have a pill for everything today and every symptom invites us to name a new syndrome after it. We are so interested in the instant cure that we fail to see the long term consequences of our actions and I am not talking about global warming.
40% of the world’s population lives in India & China and they are changing the world to suit themselves, not us.
We are the only world power left to run amuck saving the world for democracy without even asking if the world wanted to be saved. Maybe the world ought to be saved from us.
This psychological adolescence is a long one to be true. We take one step forward only to take 3 steps back, falling into old very predictable traps.
We seem to be more tolerant of other species than we were before and less tolerant of our own. We go to war for just as ridiculous reasons as we did before and we ravage each other with utter delight. The same people who give their wealth for supposedly good causes control us beyond belief. Our everyday lives are more violent than ever. We seem to love our comic book movies just as much as our horror movies. Is that because we love to be scared just as much as we love to kill each other? What ever seems to get the adrenalin going works for us, I guess. Our love of soap operas has now become main stream as we look at TV more than ever before. Our kids are fatter than they have ever been because they play video games all the time for some release, that is, a violent release. We have now spoiled our kids so much that they don’t want to get physical at all, except to beat on other kids.
We seem to worry more about global warming than killing thousands of Muslims around the world. We recycle plastic but can’t seem to get off the oil for energy loop that pollutes the world.
The prices of everything in America are rising rapidly except for what Wal-Mart sells. The China wakeup call is everywhere, but we don’t seem to get the picture. We just use our credit cards more and more. We don’t want to do physical work anymore, but we complain about the only people willing to do it, Mexicans.
We save the whales and polar bears, but sue our neighbors at the drop of a hat. We do much worse to anyone who is of a different religion or tribe.
We have politicians that write laws of 400 pages or more and read only a one page synopsis of them and then vote on them. Can anyone but a lawyer understand our system of laws and have we asked ourselves lately how many lawyers have our interests at heart.
We have a pill for everything today and every symptom invites us to name a new syndrome after it. We are so interested in the instant cure that we fail to see the long term consequences of our actions and I am not talking about global warming.
40% of the world’s population lives in India & China and they are changing the world to suit themselves, not us.
We are the only world power left to run amuck saving the world for democracy without even asking if the world wanted to be saved. Maybe the world ought to be saved from us.
posted by Mike Liesveld @ 3:51 PM
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