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Posted by JayMan on Sun Apr 3 20:07:07 2011, in response to Why Does Everything Suck?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Apr 3 03:59:53 2011. Everyone has problems. Just because humanity has made great progress over the years (at least in the First World, anyway) doesn't mean that everything sucks. They are just not perfect; they never will be. But there is no question that life in the developed world is better than it used to be.Japan, once thought to be the most technologically advanced nation on the globe, can't stop a nuclear disaster that threatens all of the Far East and perhaps more. The problem far from threatens all of the Far East. While no doubt a serious tragedy, the problem will be confined to a fairly small area of northern Japan. Though definitely very bad, it is not the Armageddon scenario you seem to paint. The US government has devolved into nonstop bickering, namecalling and political claptrappery. Nothing gets done anymore. Name calling and smearing has taken the place of governance. Posturing and greed is the name of the game. Nobody lets anyone govern. The internet and Fox News has toned up the rhetoric. Who has the loudest and most extreme message rules the day. Why do you think Sarah Palin could become so popular? Nobody lets anyone govern. Clinton got hounded by the Republicans almost from day one. Because that's the strategy: you win by defaming the other guy. The Republicans are masters of smear, and that was their whole strategy and clearly is the master plan with Obama: Bush was first criticized as having stolen the 2000 election and then pounded as incompetent. Because Bush was incompetent. All you hear about are coming crises - the oil crisis, the food price crisis, the terrorist crisis, global warming, racism, thuggery, bigotry. And so on. You forgot about a big one: the dying bees. You hear about them because that's the job of the media: to tell you about all the things you should be scared of. Most of these are legitimate problems, sometimes there are crises. Such is life. Humanity as a race has accomplished so much in science and technology but it seems we are backsliding into barbarity. I had hoped for better in the 21st century. As a species? Things will get better. In some areas they will get worse. Among the biggest problems facing humanity in the 21st century is poverty, particularly the abject poverty of the Third World. There is evidence that this is due to cognitive differences between different races, as such is it not clear how it is to be solved, but it is a great injustice of humanity that some societies are ascending to greatness while other suffer in undignified squalor. |
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