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

On Mar 30, 4:00 am, "leerevdoug...@googlemail.com" <l...@rdfmedia.com>
wrote:
> I would guess we are staying roughtly in the same place.
>
> We still have war, we still have despots clinging to power we still
> have shady democracy and the haves and have nots.  We have patriotism,
> we have religious strife, we have those that are oppresed and those
> that oppress.  No we have not moved far at all in the millenia that
> our species ceased to crawl on four legs.

I disagree. The human population in 1 AD was estimated at between 200
and 300 million people. The current world population is 20 to 30 times
that and yet there are far fewer turf wars between nations and tribes.

There is a loose international consensus and cooperation between
developed nations on global issues.

The US population is greater than the entire world population in 1 AD
and yet we live peacefully under a single set of laws. The same goes
for Europe, China, most of Asia and the continents in the southern
hemisphere.

It's true that there is still conflict in the world but it's mostly
from third world countries where resources are strained and when it
gets too bloody either the US or the UN will step in to mediate.

The world isn't perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than it was a
thousand years ago.