onlooker wrote:"look at the sea of Kudzu Apes and I see degraded decadent human beings. We weren't always like this."
Yes, Ibon, we have treated the Earth, the way we have treated each other often. With little consideration
Ibon wrote:Think about it. The current human culture is decadent in relationship to our mother earth. That in and of itself is enough reason to understand that there is no long term viability to this arrangement. Things are moving exactly where they need to at the moment..... not because there are wise stewards guiding our human population. It is because of the collective decadence that we are moving in the right direction. Toward the instabilities that will bring us back to a base line we have forgotten we even had.
Plantagenet wrote:
Rather then seeing human culture as decadent---as having fallen from some prior non-decadent condition --- I see human sapiens as just another animal species, facing the same limitations that other animal species face when their population gets too large.
Ibon wrote:Plantagenet wrote:
Rather then seeing human culture as decadent---as having fallen from some prior non-decadent condition --- I see human sapiens as just another animal species, facing the same limitations that other animal species face when their population gets too large.
It's the current crop of humans that are decadent. Our species is not decadent.
KaiserJeep wrote:There is only one difference between the current generation and prior ones, and it is one that Ibon struggles to accept. Today's humans are networked via the omnipresent, all pervading, inescapable worldwide Internet.
I felt a pang of the same unrest when I saw how adroitly my twin 3-year-old grandkids could manipulate their iPads. Their parents have no doubts, obviously. I kept my misgivings to myself.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:
Even if 99.9% of humans could reasonably be called "decadent" by people who agree on the precise definition of what that means in context, that's still over 7.5 million people who aren't decadent.
KaiserJeep wrote: The present misery in Venezuela is but the latest example.
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