Nice post :cool: . It is quite humbling when you sit back and realise how small we all are in the grand scheme of things. Sometimes makes your problems seem small too :)
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Nice post :cool: . It is quite humbling when you sit back and realise how small we all are in the grand scheme of things. Sometimes makes your problems seem small too :)
Absolutely! That is what I try to comfort my customers with now and the: "In a million years or so, no one will care anymore". I find this approach somewhat unsuccesful most of the times though, and they just tend to look angry and keep on arguing about things like vacations and families and other unsignificant issues...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
We are nothing, and the only upside to any of this is your point in 10000 years ago man was at the Stone Age plus a few years. Now we have supersonic aircraft, the internet, man has stood on the moon, we have a presecence in orbit, we have biological science breaking down DNA and solving health issues that have plagued mankind for years. We have done so much and despite our propensity to make war with each other at times, we have as a species moved along rather well.
Global warming, regardless of whether you believe man is behind or it or not will be adapted to. The oil economy and its probable finite nature will be adapted and gotten around. The ability to make war at some point will be dealt with.
All it takes is capitalism to be the fuel of human development, responsible democratic government being around to regulate it responsibly ( something that hasn't happened at times in the last few years) without choking it, and letting free people use their inate desire to raise their ambitions and/or pocketbooks create develop the technology and products that will get us around issues that plague us.
We may be very small people on a little planet on a quiet part of one galaxy in the Universe, but we likely are not alone, and we all want a better world for our kids so instead of playing petty politics and games, we should be pragmatic whenever possible and let progress work out issues over time. Political agenda's and hijacking the business world to make them the villians conveniently ignores the fact government has killed far more people than big business.....