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[Elvin]

Dude...you can't be serious

I swear I am. Or am I totally ignorant cause I've been living in Canada for the past 5 years? Cause that's how it is here... live and let live.

 

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[X Æ A-12]

I swear I am. Or am I totally ignorant cause I've been living in Canada for the past 5 years? Cause that's how it is here... live and let live.

That explains it

 

[Elvin]

Man, why can't the whole world be like Canada and the Scandinavian countries? Goddamnit... is it the climate?

 

[Bjerknes]

That doesn't make sense, Africa will have imploded long before then

It's been imploding since the beginning of time. They can do another 200 years.

 

[X Æ A-12]

But they never had the technology to destroy themselves before, they will in the next 50 years maybe even sooner, and when that happens bye bye Africa

 

[Zé Tahir]

I swear I am. Or am I totally ignorant cause I've been living in Canada for the past 5 years? Cause that's how it is here... live and let live.

Your view on women isn't exactly a way forward.

 

[Elvin]

Your view on women isn't exactly a way forward.

Fuck off man. I have been vastly misunderstood. Bunch of easy "laberers". I don't blame them, it's easier that way... categorize people, "oh here's a homoophobic women hater, this one's a racist, that's one's that, blah blah"

Whatevs... The world would be boring as hell without women and their unpredictability... I love 'em, my hatred is towards the obvious hypocrisy of some feminist ideas.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Good thread, interesting so far.

I don't have faith in humanity for the 21st Century though.

 

[Ford Prefect]

Good thread, interesting so far.

I don't have faith in humanity for the 21st Century though.

Why?

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Why?

Because it seems as if society is just becoming more and more selfish. Everyone is just to gain personal satisfaction and they think that happiness can be found in material possessions and sex or whatever. Just an overall decrease in morals to the point where we're probably gonna kill out each other one way or another.

 

[swag]

Yes but there was a much larger jump between the end of the 19th and the end of the 20th centuries as compared to any other two back to back. The fact our population growth has gone out of control is proof

That's how a logarithmic scale works, though. In your own frame, the incremental leaps to the next century compared to the last seem similar.

I mean -- the dizzying pace of technology has been postulated for centuries. Martin Heidegger did a pretty decent job capturing this over half a century ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology

That reminds me of this.

http://www.juventuz.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1576791&highlight=flying#post1576791

I remember that.

 

[Ford Prefect]

Because it seems as if society is just becoming more and more selfish. Everyone is just to gain personal satisfaction and they think that happiness can be found in material possessions and sex or whatever. Just an overall decrease in morals to the point where we're probably gonna kill out each other one way or another.

You say that but is not the issue the technology available as opposed to humans, humans have always been like this.

 

[Zé Tahir]

Fuck off man. I have been vastly misunderstood. Bunch of easy "laberers". I don't blame them, it's easier that way... categorize people, "oh here's a homoophobic women hater, this one's a racist, that's one's that, blah blah"

Whatevs... The world would be boring as hell without women and their unpredictability... I love 'em, my hatred is towards the obvious hypocrisy of some feminist ideas.

Okay, but you can see the way you came off when you said what you said and that link

 

[Elvin]

Because it seems as if society is just becoming more and more selfish. Everyone is just to gain personal satisfaction and they think that happiness can be found in material possessions and sex or whatever. Just an overall decrease in morals to the point where we're probably gonna kill out each other one way or another.

No, individualistic. More people do charities now.
In the developed places people started looking into themselves instead of just trying to fit in with everyone. They might appear more self-possessed. But I think it's better than the whole "Our house is better that theirs" thing we had before. Now it's "our house is like this, and theirs is like that. Both have their own thing going for them. Nice."

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

You say that but is not the issue the technology available as opposed to humans, humans have always been like this.

I think it's worse now, even as compared to 10 years ago I see a big difference in people. Maybe what I saw 10 years ago was just the view of an innocent child, but I really think that people were a lot more caring back then. Yeah technology is advancing, but those who create it generally want one thing anyway, profit.

 

[Elvin]

Okay, but you can see the way you came off when you said what you said and that link

I said it was interesting, that's all. I don't live by it FFS, how would I ever get anyone to talk to me let alone sleep with me

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

No, individualistic. More people do charities now.
In the developed places people started looking into themselves instead of just trying to fit in with everyone. They might appear more self-possessed. But I think it's better than the whole "Our house is better that theirs" thing we had before. Now it's "our house is like this, and theirs is like that. Both have their own thing going for them. Nice."

A lot of people donate to charitites out of guilt though, not even thinking about whether what they give actually reaches the ones in need.

Selfish in that people the most important thing is financial gain and it doesn't really matter how it's done, the point is to get a lot and get it quickly.


Lol, I hope this turn into an argument though, I'm so tired right now.

 

[Azzurri7]

Like Kyle said, I think at some point things will go out of control. Very possible in the 21st century though.

 

[Firestarter]

Every century kicked the ass of the century before it. You new at this?

I can't wait for XXX

I'm online now..

 

[Dostoevsky]

The level of society has grown dramatically in the 19-20 century. The biggest reason of this change.