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From The Cradle of Civilization to a Grave of Indifference -- Discussion | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 hidden)
History Repeats Too Much (5.00 / 3) (#2)
Nicely written GreyHawk! Lots to think about. Butterfly wings causing hurricanes kept coming to mind.

I've never been able to come to a comfortable place with the question of humanity. Are we inherently generous or inherently selfish? I often lead towards believing we're selfish because of the ongoing contradiction that we survive as individuals but damn our species.


by susie dow on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 05:23:57 PM EST
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I'd like to think that the jury is (5.00 / 3) (#3)
still out on that question; there are tremendous amounts of human compassion out there, just as there are vast wastelands of irrational fear and misdirected anger.

I think we're still evolving as a species, and if we can keep ourselves from getting too technically advanced -- long enough for our minds to evolve an equal amount of wisdom to manage our evolving technological power -- then we have a chance of breeding out the contemptuous aspects of our species.

It's one of the only comforting thoughts I have after seeing such examples of callous destruction and disregard for others.

:/

by GreyHawk on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 05:30:03 PM EST
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From the comments (5.00 / 3) (#5)
on dKos, shaharazade says what I was trying to put into words here ...

Some times the caring and helping itself become the very problem. Humanism and nature, even in our own society, seem buried. I feel compassion let's people off the hook, even within our own culture. We seem blinded to any other way but that which is deemed progress, leaving behind in our hubris, the fact that we know nothing but a tiny piece of the picture. Our remedies are often worse then the problem.

by shaharazade on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 02:27:09 PM PDT



by roxy317 on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 05:42:25 PM EST
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Yes, shaharazade nailed it. n/t (5.00 / 2) (#7)


by GreyHawk on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 07:24:53 PM EST
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