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Even as an advanced civilisation, our beliefs (religious, cultural, nationalist, ideological) are still too often more important than the real world and real people. The fundamentalists on both sides of this unfolding human disaster are literally taking that to the extreme.
On a side note, the ability to formulate abstract ideas and imagine things that don’t exist is our greatest strength as a species. And yet history shows us that it’s probably our greatest weakness too as this imagined world can also drive incredible horrors that are sub-animal let alone sub-human.
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For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 09:42 - Oct 11 with 1849 views
For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 09:36 - Oct 11 by Darth_Koont
Even as an advanced civilisation, our beliefs (religious, cultural, nationalist, ideological) are still too often more important than the real world and real people. The fundamentalists on both sides of this unfolding human disaster are literally taking that to the extreme.
On a side note, the ability to formulate abstract ideas and imagine things that don’t exist is our greatest strength as a species. And yet history shows us that it’s probably our greatest weakness too as this imagined world can also drive incredible horrors that are sub-animal let alone sub-human.
Our technological development has outpaced our psychological and social development by quite some distance.
Humans are incredibly good at understanding concepts and inventing something useful using that concept, our entire history shows this.
We are however less good at rationalising emotive subjects and are incredibly good at cherry picking evidence to support something we either already agree with or feel is right.
A quick spin around social media highlights the above fairly nicely. An incredible achievement of technology when you think of all the interconnecting systems, concepts and theories required to make a social media platform but an utter cesspit of actual views and information.
SB
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For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 09:44 - Oct 11 with 1843 views
I suppose that the very forces which have driven our 'recent' evolution as a thinking, conscious, 'rational' species - consciously selfish decision making, fear-based manipulation, and expansionist tribal societies - are the very things we cannot admit we need to let go of in a finite world in which we are rapidly coming up hard against environmental and spacial constraints. Hence conflicts.
The selfish part of humanity remains well and truly in control. The fact that wars, poverty and pandemics take our thoughts and efforts away from the underlying problem that we have gone much too far in our rabid destruction of the over-populated world, is understandable but also pathetically inadequate as a survival response. It looks very much like a dead end with, for many, enlightenment hidden under a bushel of oil right to the finish.
For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 09:42 - Oct 11 by StokieBlue
Our technological development has outpaced our psychological and social development by quite some distance.
Humans are incredibly good at understanding concepts and inventing something useful using that concept, our entire history shows this.
We are however less good at rationalising emotive subjects and are incredibly good at cherry picking evidence to support something we either already agree with or feel is right.
A quick spin around social media highlights the above fairly nicely. An incredible achievement of technology when you think of all the interconnecting systems, concepts and theories required to make a social media platform but an utter cesspit of actual views and information.
SB
Social media was fine - until they let people loose on it.
"Blueas is a great guy, one of the best." - Donald Trump
For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 09:42 - Oct 11 by StokieBlue
Our technological development has outpaced our psychological and social development by quite some distance.
Humans are incredibly good at understanding concepts and inventing something useful using that concept, our entire history shows this.
We are however less good at rationalising emotive subjects and are incredibly good at cherry picking evidence to support something we either already agree with or feel is right.
A quick spin around social media highlights the above fairly nicely. An incredible achievement of technology when you think of all the interconnecting systems, concepts and theories required to make a social media platform but an utter cesspit of actual views and information.
SB
We are the monkey that was too stupid to be able to handle the tools which it was clever enough to invent.
For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 09:49 - Oct 11 by The_Flashing_Smile
Given that clotted cream is closer to butter than jam, then surely the cream goes on first?
You don't put jam on your toast and then butter on top of that do you?!
Mind you, when I used to work in Woodland Conservation and we had our end of work party bonfire our team leader used to make inside out toasted sandwiches (you put the butter on the outside of the slices of bread and then some cheese, wrap it up in cooking foil and put it in the middle of the bonfire and then retrieve it from the ashes later.)
I kind of disengaged from middle east politics a long time ago, primarily because the more you look at it the more depressing it is. And I can't change it or influence it, all it does is convince me the whole place is a basket place with little realistic hope of peace.
After the Moscow theater siege when Chechens took a load of hostages I recall a chat with an Afrikaner colleague. He told me that if he had learned one thing from South Africa it was that you can't keep a people down forever. The more you suppress them, the tighter you keep a lid on things, the worse it will be when the lid comes off.
Seen or heard nothing in the past 20 years since to make me think he was wrong. I despair at the inhumanity we have witnessed and what will follow in the coming days, weeks and no doubt years.
For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 09:55 - Oct 11 by WeWereZombies
Mind you, when I used to work in Woodland Conservation and we had our end of work party bonfire our team leader used to make inside out toasted sandwiches (you put the butter on the outside of the slices of bread and then some cheese, wrap it up in cooking foil and put it in the middle of the bonfire and then retrieve it from the ashes later.)
A very good allegory; we did things the wrong way round and only realised it when we dug through the ashes.
For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 09:59 - Oct 11 by bluelagos
I kind of disengaged from middle east politics a long time ago, primarily because the more you look at it the more depressing it is. And I can't change it or influence it, all it does is convince me the whole place is a basket place with little realistic hope of peace.
After the Moscow theater siege when Chechens took a load of hostages I recall a chat with an Afrikaner colleague. He told me that if he had learned one thing from South Africa it was that you can't keep a people down forever. The more you suppress them, the tighter you keep a lid on things, the worse it will be when the lid comes off.
Seen or heard nothing in the past 20 years since to make me think he was wrong. I despair at the inhumanity we have witnessed and what will follow in the coming days, weeks and no doubt years.
I've not been in Africa for almost eight years now but I spent a month in South Africa in 2013 and then went back for another month before the year was out. Fascinating place, your brain works overtime all the while you are there. But that is a nation with space and resources aplenty (and corruption aplenty too if reports can be trusted) whereas Palestine and Israel are tiny and overpopulated by comparison.
There is some natural gas offshore (which has needed an agreement with Lebanon, wonder how that sits now ?) and farming is possible with care and attention but as far as I can see other economic well being derives from hard won mental effort. Never been yet but I have looked down on 'the promised land' from Mount Nebo in Jordan and cannot say it is somewhere I would want to live, maybe you need to spend a long time in the desert to fully appreciate it. So my point is that some parts of the Middle East require an almost infinite amount of patience to understand given that they depend on the most complex reliance upon human relations of anywhere on Earth.
For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 10:17 - Oct 11 by Cornette
I knew it was over for humanity when I saw the booking for Wrestlemania 25.
Money in the Bank Ladder Match CM Punk def. Kane, Mark Henry (with Tony Atlas), Montel Vontavious Porter, Shelton Benjamin, Kofi Kingston, Christian and Finlay (with Hornswoggle)
25-Diva Battle Royal to crown Miss WrestleMania Santina Marella won by eliminating Beth Phoenix and Melina
Handicap Elimination Match Chris Jericho def. Roddy Piper, Ricky Steamboat and Jimmy Snuka (with Ric Flair)
Extreme Rules Match Matt Hardy def. Jeff Hardy
WWE Intercontinental Championship Rey Mysterio def. John "Bradshaw" Layfield (c)
The Undertaker def. Shawn Michaels
World Heavyweight Championship Triple Threat Match John Cena def. Edge (c) and The Big Show
WWE Championship Match Triple H (c) def. Randy Orton
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Taker vs HBK the only shining light.
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For all our advances as a species, we aren't really that clever are we? on 12:41 - Oct 11 with 1534 views
THEY enjoy exerting their control and probably get a raging hard on with blood spilt and lives lost
Who's this "we"? You and I get a chance to vote at various levels in this country, but how much have you felt you've actually changed the UK, let alone the world?the
Given the corruption fest here recently, the bile and lies from the ruling party how long before this country falls apart? Once I would have laughed at the mere mention, but now think this could even happen in my lifetime. Maybe even within a year if CONservatives find a way to avoid a GE. Note how our esteemed PM mentions how they need to be in power to effect real change.
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