Ignorance is No Excuse
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Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #27
Indeed John we sometimes make up stories we end up believing in :-)
John Rylance
6 years ago #26
Ken Boddie
6 years ago #25
I guess an “old fart” by any other name would smell as sweet?
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #24
Ken Boddie
6 years ago #23
Lisa Vanderburg
6 years ago #22
You pose important points Harvey Lloyd; can we ever regain our humanity? Is it like wishing for our lost innocence? The irony of the dawn of the industrial revolution has so quickly brought us from all that wonderful enlightenment to the greed-filled, scared beasts we are. Poverty, as you say, is both of mind and body and we can bleat, but what help are we? What happened to common decency, humility, manners, the small yet essential part of us? If we impart these values to our children, society seems to crush them and they're outcast. Stupid bleedin' humans!
Harvey Lloyd
6 years ago #21
We look at industry as the destroyers of society and ideal futures. This is a political perspective that started back in the fifties. Give the voting populace something to hate, blame etc and we can offer to fix it. No industry produces and sells what we want. Wer want security and protection so that we can go about our lives while others do their job at security. We don't want to know how this is accomplished and don't want to know. But when we are exposed to it and it is shown as barbaric we cringe at such human behaviour. You have three people in front of you. One has planted a bomb that will kill thousands and you have no way of evacuation. You know the timeframe is short, not sure how short but is within hours. Its your job to secure your town, city or people. Whatever your choice is to get the info is yours to live with. Secondarily if your choice left the three alive what do you now do with the guilty party? These are tough question that i have had to ask myself. I didn't cause the setting/situation. My job is to make a decision within this mccabe situation. Yet there is no good decision here. All of them suck. Each day we are faced with situations when we include the world. Is it arms sales or people who want security, power or wealth. Do we not all desire some of these in varying degrees? Lawlessness will always be with us, the larger question is how have we become desensitized to this in such away that we have lawless people in charge? We broke the human barrier a few decades ago with power and wealth, this will be a difficult cat to get back in the bag again. We can have arms and still be human. We destroyed each other when we only had sticks and we will be destroying one another when we have brain wave cannons that shoot from our eyes. Humanity needs its code back and all need to live within it.
Lisa Vanderburg
6 years ago #20
#13 #19 I truly hope that we have learned from our past mistakes and that we are indeed evolving to become a better humanity. I also hope that 'something' we lost Harvey Lloyd, doesn't just turn out to have anything to do the arms-race biz. 'Wisdom is to be shared and not leveraged against someone or something.' Amen to that, brother!
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #19
not necessarily how I would phrase it but this is your point of view :-), I can think of many ladies who have been heroic in the French resistance yes I also know some were not
Harvey Lloyd
6 years ago #18
War is an end game that does seem to flush the toilet of tyranny. But we loose something in war. Brilliant minds on the losing side get squashed and it is hard for us to recapture this humanity. So in war we all lose. But this is the wake up cal before the war starts, for us to begin rethinking humanity and its last 50 year track. We have walked away from something that held us together for a long time. We need to find that something and reinstate "it" before its to late. Wisdom is to be shared and not leveraged against someone or something.
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #17
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
6 years ago #16
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #15
ah that's a very nice comment Debasish Majumder just a few words doing my best, it does not mean its the best but hey as long people like you keep reading... :-)
Debasish Majumder
6 years ago #14
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #13
thanks Kim Wheeler we hopefully wont need another carnage having said there are already a few going on which would indicate that our ability to educate and learn is limited unfortunately , bad generals seem to reproduce and multiply :-(
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #12
I hope you are not right about major crisis and wars etc.. Lisa Vanderburg because this would mean we have learned nothing, I think it is a phase maybe a lost generation there seem to be a collective sense of apathy which is only awaken when materialistic or shallow purposes are threatened
Lisa Vanderburg
6 years ago #11
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #10
true I had in mind to mention virtual reality and AI but failed to transfer them from my draft blame the age 🤔 I am not getting any younger Lada \ud83c\udfe1 Prkic
Lada 🏡 Prkic
6 years ago #9
Lada 🏡 Prkic
6 years ago #8
Harvey Lloyd
6 years ago #7
I would venture to guess that you know five people right now that could benefit from your wisdom. I would propose some research. Pick the five people who you sense could benefit and write a post about the communication. Three goals in mind: 1. You can state their case 2. They can state yours 3.Each walks away with mutual respect. The gauntlet of action has been laid against apathy:) Secretly i am saying this to myself. If we are to die then make it on the battlefield of righteousness, not apathy.
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #6
very thoughtful and articulated comment as only you Harvey Lloyd can come up with :-) I think there is still a small possibility to reverse the trend but its slim and may not be sufficient what a waste .....
Harvey Lloyd
6 years ago #5
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #4
I think Neil Smith your comment does encapsulate pretty much everything from our own responsibility to lack of drive. I am also curious and somewhat anxious to see what will the generation after the millennials is capable to produce.... :-)
Neil Smith
6 years ago #3
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #2
ah thanks Paul Walters I am expecting to be bruised all over with that one so it is not bad to get started with a praise much appreciated :-)
Paul Walters
6 years ago #1