How do you find world in the coming 21st century?

taking major steps forward in technology and small steps backwards in humanity,,,,,and morality

i also think about that my dear and that is so bad...:(

The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry


we scheme for things on the surface that seem positive, but in the end will be our end,,,, its a pretty shrewd trick of the world/nature/evil.. or whatever one calls it,,,

how can one argue with 'love'?
how can one argue with 'freedom'?

the world successfully intertwines those noble goals with all types of negative and eventually harmful emotions and actions,,,,,but I do think it is inevitable

as a christian, I think it will 'end' how it began, with the serpent enticing us by convincing us we do no harm,,,,

As a Melmacian, I simply use the GPS system in my space ship.

Very nice thought my dear...how i wish that all people have a mind and heart like yours...

you really belong in the high tech world...how about us, innocent?

I worry about how my younger sisters and cousins will cope, long after I'm dead. They have no experience with bank accounts or anything. They also can't cook. I worry that the government will leave the future in limbo.

There IS hope...Some of the pioneers of freedom and technology are hard at work as we speak. We could end a lot of the evil in the world if we would only heed them...Of course, first we have to know that they even exist before we can do that.

For example, how many have even heard of men like Richard Stallman?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Q--zqroM

Changing a world that sucks is gonna take a lot of good people actually putting some effort into it by doing the right thing. Whatever you might say about the new pope or his motives, I have to say that he's doing the right thing...and he's far from alone. Adding the above Richard Stallman (doing his own "thing") to the list, we still have many more to count in.

I'm sure most of you have at least heard of Max Keiser...Have a look at his inclinations these days.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkcK4ZpoFS0

I think any of the new pope, Richard, or Max would qualify as one of us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM

Thank you guys for the very inspiring messages...:)

I remember this topic way back highschool.

Who's to say we don't take steps forward in humanity? I think we've already come a long way.

Cultural barriers are being broken; people who have always been shunned by our society are now slowly being accepted.

It's not all doom and gloom.

I didnt say all doom and gloom. I say we take steps backward in humanity the more we become more dependent and connected to it than we do to human beings

just my personal opinion,,,,things are becoming more important than people, the simple and easy is becoming the goal instead of the kind and considerate,,,,

as values become more and more subjective, the fewer values we really have as a race,,,,

The Guy who works for free,and loves to give away his Brain?
And expect for everyone to do the same?


Something like the Twentieth Century Motor Company after the Starnes Heirs got hold of it?

I agree to msharmony people are becoming dependent to technologies and gadgets. We set aside the alternative way to do more and earn the worth.

well,people have had it Bassackward for a while now,expecting their possessions to give their Lives a purpose and meaning,instead of the other way around!
Then they blame the Gadgets and Money for it,instead of blaming their own Values.


So you think that money is the root of all evil? . . . Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor—your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?

Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions—and you’ll learn that man’s mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

For the New Intellectual

“The Meaning of Money,”

This is an excerpt of this:


http://redfox21.xanga.com/727890130/atlas-shrugged-excerpt-francisco-danconias-speech-on-money-is-not-the-root-of-evil/


People who think their possessions can give their Lives meaning are barking up the wrong Tree!
But that is that Inverted Morality of today!

Don’t know, we still have not left the dark ages. There is still so much we don’t know. There are people that still believe what ever they are told by their leaders. They lack reason and the ability to think for oneself. Sure we got better technology but humans have not changed one bit.

well that was actually 13 years ago and the world was a pretty scary place to me at that time. so I have made some progress personally.

The world seems much the same. The usual changing tides of conservatism / liberalism.

I think we have seen simultaneously a huge growth in concern about personal privacy and a great loss of it

I think people are less respectful and that has unfortunately become acceptable

advances in communication technology means people need to train themselves to take down time away - but most don't - 1/3 adult Americans has high Blood Pressure....

these same advances allow us to know more about what is going on in the world and in gov't so that is a shifting trend that as a society we are still adjusting to

in some parts of the world there is certainly still the dark ages, but it is something here in the states we need to pay less attention to and start fixing things up here at home, jmho