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2006-09-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2006-09-08 09:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yes, and you get it from the door knockers who come with the End of the World repent message. They watch too much tv and hear too much radio and read too many dead tree pubs. Think its bad, just think of the 13th and 14th Centuries when the Mongols and plagues devastated the known world. Taking a quarter of the European population is something two world wars of the 20th Century never achieved.

Terrible, terrible. Just pull out the Almanac and check the census data from 1900 on and see life expediency increase every 10 years. Just glancing around the room I see conveniences which merely 20 years ago would have been luxuries or purely the products of imagination rather than reality. Even the statistical poor today have it better off than most middle class of the 50s.

Today, I possess more things things than all the powerful rulers of the pre-20th Century possessed. Did Alexander have central air and heating? Did the grand rulers of India or China have double door refrigerators with water dispenser? Could any of the Caesars booked on-line and be in Tahiti in a couple of days? I have access to health care and medical knowledge that make a long life less of the will of god than any of them could wish for. I can travel from one corner of the world to another both physically and virtually in hours if not seconds. I can communicate at the speed of light to those locations as well. I have gazed upon the surface of strange and alien landscapes with eyes that reach out to xenoscapes upon celestial bodies that were merely distant points of lights in the sky for them. I can enjoy a diet of the most varied nature at anytime of the year. Fruits in the dead of winter, fresh ocean fish caught hours ago and available in the middle of continent. And I am an average Joe.

I know the world is not perfect. I also know the world has never been perfect. When I stand upon the accomplishments of thousands whove built the world I truly enjoy and appreciate, I do not mourn the imperfections. Ive learned a long time ago to ignore the songs of doom and gloom. However, I do distress when they sing their song for power and so many follow the piper witlessly. For they make their own worlds dark and unhappy by their own choosing.

Posted by Unomotch Flemble7560 2006-09-08 11:45|| 2006-09-08 11:45|| Front Page Top

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