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Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:51:32 +0100

I don't see this age as unique in killing others for religion, disrespect for the ecosystem, or in creating novel military technology. All of that has gone on for centuries. What may mark it off is (1) the dramatic acceleration of technology and (2) the recognition that we are approaching limits. If we don't attend to the planet's finite capacity and to the global dissemination of weapons of mass destruction, there may be no one to remember this age; and I think this realization is beginning to dawn on many for the first time.

Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:04:12 +0100

this might sound completely off kilter and ridiculous

but if, in the future, the current world in which we are living is frowned upon as being so outrightly savage, wrong and brutal, one must assume that the future must've advanced morally. It's like climbing a hill - if you've progressed, than everything behind you is belittled in comparison. If you've gone downhill, then all that was in the past seems so high up and awesome.

Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:58:18 +0100

We will be remembered favorably. Just when it seemed the we were doomed to destroy ourselves, we rose up, forsook our waring past, and moved toward peace. It is our generation that will form the first global community. We have awoken.

Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:50:59 +0100

More people are able to follow their dreams whether that means devotion to a philanthropic cause, running a company or contributing in some other way to society and the economy. Has there been unhealthy restriction by government. Yes. what needs to happen now. address freedoms, rights, democracy and how to stengthen all of these.. this probably means less government.

Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:50:38 +0100

It is my belief that we are on the verge of greatness.. globalization is closer than it has ever been, there are more countries being raised global citizens seeing their income raise to a subsistance and better every day. see next--->

Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:30:05 +0100

This will be a dark period in American History. Preemptive war, violations of the Geneva Conventions, wiretapping, torture, embezzlement of billions, politicaliztion of the Dept of Justice. and so on. Hopefully we are about to come out of the post 911 state of shock and start being apalled at what we have become.

Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:26:55 +0100

then maybe we could support some kind of perfect international peace with no atrocities, or whatever future culture this guy hypothesizes will be judging us.

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Bigthink — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:26:36 +0100

and pollution as consequences sometime, but it will always be that way its human nature. If everyone in the world was a liberal intellectual and we had no insane, mentally disabled, or abnormal people,

Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:26:15 +0100

Some people believe that it furthers society to have fetuses aborted because they will be totally unwanted and abandoned by society. The point is that humans react with war

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Bigthink — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:25:20 +0100

People create out of necessessity and to further their own lives. You might ask, well whats the necessity in abortion or some other horrible medical sciences.

Comment on: How will this age be remembered?

Bigthink — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:24:31 +0100

This video is absurd. Just because you name the worlds environmental, international, and scientific tragedies and their consequences doesnt mean that we're all ignorant and have doomed ourselves to be remembered as neanderthals.