[Mind's Eye] Re: are we as a global society moving forward or backward?

We certainly have advanced in clever ways to kill one another! Now it
is mostly remote or drone! The USA army also developed crowd controls
which were covered by CNN several years ago- microwave stunners, goo
on the ground and another which I forget. Not to mention the loss of
privacy or random violence or having an idea who some people are
unlike former tight communities and family structure. We are taxed and
fee-d to the gills- food is expensive- love is risky- etc!

Spring has sprung! Family will be here in 10 days! :-)

On Apr 5, 10:13 am, "leerevdoug...@googlemail.com" <l...@rdfmedia.com>
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> Strange how people are I guess. I notice no such trend.  In fact I see
> much that is good in humanity and our advances, I simply do see any
> evidance that we are moving down a path of self annilhilation and I'm
> somewhat supprised of your doomsaying here OM.  Are you privy to some
> data that the rest of us are not perhaps?
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> On Apr 5, 6:10 am, ornamentalmind <ornsmindseyes...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Unless humanity recognizes the unity of all, our current path towards
> > self annihilation is unstoppable.
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> > On Apr 4, 6:55 pm, the taoist shaman <bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > now MAYBE   im a  LITTLE CRAZY             but       it seams  to
> > > me    that the direction we are hedding ( like a stream whose path is
> > > directed by the mountain  as it erodes the mountain , until its path
> > > is eched out , and not easily  broken away from ) is in the wrong
> > > direction , ... why ?........ the answer is as vast as the expance of
> > > the void of that which is unknown <------ see anyone can sound
> > > politician like -------
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> > > Ash wrote:
> > > > Not at all pessimistic Malcolm, I keep hearing depressing news about my old
> > > > highschool. Teachers overworked, theyve changed it from an alternative to an
> > > > urban school with higher student ratios. They teach using computers a lot
> > > > and the kids mostly slack off visiting facebook and youtube, there is a lot
> > > > less one-on-one contact and interaction based learning. To top it off all
> > > > this is because of no child left behind crap and teachers are so overworked
> > > > they are doing their best just to teach to the test and pass them along.
> > > > Someone will have to deal with it eventually while kids keep getting by on
> > > > as little as possible fundamental skills and perpetual remedial panaceas.
> > > > Not pessimist at all! They are destroying public education, and all the
> > > > teachers know it. :(- Hide quoted text -
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