Bok_Tukalo
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:30 PM
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What do you think we are doing today that History will judge harshly? |
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There are always things we look back on from the relatively small, like segregated water fountains, to the unimaginable, like slavery and human sacrifice, that we judge through a lens of a contemporary ethical center.
I often wonder what my culture is doing that will be seen in the future as atrocity.
Consumerism and resource waste? Pollution? Capitalism? Abortion?
I think maybe we are more awful than we can imagine.
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:34 PM
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they will be punishable by death in the future
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:38 PM
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4. Perhaps I should stop thinking so much |
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It will probably be something totally innocuous like communicating exclusively through text with other individuals as a means of socialization.
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:37 PM
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2. We have poisoned the world |
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for our conveniences.
There may be no "history".
How is that - bleak enough? :shrug:
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:38 PM
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3. Historians will likely come to see... |
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... this era as the contemporary equivalent of the Dark Ages, quite seriously, one in which the arguably most powerful nation fought successive petty wars for political and economic advantage, where it denied science (and the inevitable future) for corporate and political advantage, and sought to overturn basic human rights for all in favor of more and more repressive government, and one where religion was used, cynically, to create a nationalistic, warmongering one-party state.
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:42 PM
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Future textbooks: The Resource Wars
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:39 PM
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5. The way we treat the homosexual community. |
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I have hope that someday, kids will learn about it and gasp in disbelief that they ever didn't have the same rights and treatment as everyone else.
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Bok_Tukalo
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:40 PM
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6. We will learn that lesson in our lifetimes |
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:42 PM
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8. Wasting our lives on the internet.. |
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by focusing on a screen rather than walking outside and taking it all in.
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:45 PM
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:42 PM
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:44 PM
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10. I've thought about that |
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Technology may make it obsolete (usually a convenient route to a new ethic).
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:45 PM
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but I think we're a couple centuries away from that yet, sad to say...
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:46 PM
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13. Ignoring the environment |
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and the claims of "chicken little" scientists.
History will condemn us utterly for it.
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Thu Mar-31-05 08:48 PM
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As someone said earlier, the general short sighted attitude of Western culture.
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