It is no longer recommended to eat fish from the ocean, because they have toxic levels of heavy metals.
It is no longer recommended to stop your car in over 1/3 of the average American or European city, because crime is so out of control.
It is no longer recommended to send smart children to regular schools, because the schools are designed to make dumb children feel accepted.
It is no longer recommended to drink water from rivers, or to eat fruit from trees grown in the suburbs.
It is no longer recommended to live in cities, because the pollution is so strong.
Today, seven billion... in ten years, nine billion. The average IQ is 85-92. Each one of these people produces a bag of garbage a day, and needs food that leaves more heavy metals in the water, more pesticides and fertilizer in our waterways.
Our politicians approve those things that make many people happy because it's what they think they want, but those things never turn out well, and problems remain. These are not problems like war, poverty and inequality, which are universal and will never go away, but problems like corruption, bad leadership, and the results.
Most cities are ugly places lined with advertising. Whatever is popular sells. Whatever sells is good, by most people's definition. They consider themselves successes if they make money and own things, but never think of the condition of their souls or minds.
Where does this course end? Nothing opposes it. It is popular. But who is thinking of the future? And most of all, who is thinking of making great art, great architecture, great music, great thinking? None of these things exist, only an incessant stream of pretty good alternatives.
Is the future of humanity doom, to fade out with a whimper and not a bang?
Some good points here. The right pretends to support traditional values by banning abortion, keeping gays unmarried and bombing Iran. The left claims to support freedom by endorsing a civil rights agenda that penalizes anyone talented, while avoiding foreign policy that needs correcting. The pattern plays itself out in every industrialized nation. The population keeps rising, as does pollution. Are we heading for doom?