Re:The big lie (Score 3)

Come on. Think it through a little and then repost. You can do better than this.

The world is a better place than it has ever been, and the trend is very good. The only problem is that the lights are coming on, and we're seeing ourselves for the flabby, whining pessimists most of us are.

The Unabomber and the Columbine "script kiddies" show us examples of negative analysis without positive analysis and positive synthesis. If you are going to address the problems of the world, you should be prepared for a big job and a scholarly, serious effort. It's pure ego to just point out a few problems and feebly propose hackneyed solutions. Check out Camus and Jung, and heed what they have to say about the results of this type of "thinking."

Intelligent people like the AC above and Katz and Gleick have all of this negative stuff to say, and it resonates. People earnestly feel these things. But it's lazy and useless. It's passive and pathetic. I simply can't stomach it.

Our parents had it worse than us, and they did magnificent things. We could too, but we won't if we are paralyzed with fear. Let's snap out of this. Let's stop feeding on this opiate of despair. Stop visualizing Armageddon. Visualize a sustainable, pleasant Earth, and it will happen.

Use your mind to make things better. It will work. Forget the greed-heads. Would anyone you know change places with Bill Gates? Michael Jackson? People are relatively smart.

Safety Net? How about a Safety Elevator? The safety net was turning into a spider's web.

Stock market crash a good thing? Please. We haven't transcended a utilitarian economy yet. Everyone would suffer.

Society is not empty, it's just misguided. But the net is making us smarter all the time. If we can get some of this negative noise out of the system (and out of our attitudes), we can make the world a much better place.