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09-11-2001, 07:09 AM
...before the blatant materialism that we see every day around us?
What was it like before worth was a matter of the quality of your character, as opposed to the content of your wallet?
Before we became a throw-away society, and what we DID have for material wealth would last longer than a year and a half?
Before the central focus in the lives of the population became production for its own sake?
Back when life was worth living?
Back when the US government was the US government, and we werent giving up our rights rapidly "for the children"
Back when there was something "worth fighting for"
Back before breast augmentation surgery and facelifts created a direct correlation between beauty and wealth.
Back when you mattered, and your skin was secondary, and your clothing was tertiary?
What was it like before the world packed itself up and sent itself off to hell in a handbasket?
How long before the rest of the world realizes western civilization isnt all its cracked up to be and tries to get a grip on reality and existance?
We're so enchanted by what our science and technology can do, and how fast it can be done that we dont have time to get used to it.
We lack morally intellectually and spiritually the ability to properly deal with that which we create.
What was it like before all of this?
When was it that we switched to a disneyfied culture? To a throw-away culture? To a ignore-the-consequences culture? To a complete lack of moral responsibility?
When did it happen?
Why is it that it is perfectly normal for people to completely ignore and REFUSE the existance of responsibility.
Is culture and society in the middle of a suicide attempt? Have we given in? Is there no alternative to moving forward?
Is the current idea of "forward" really where we need to be going?
Questions, all questions... no answers.
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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
What was it like before worth was a matter of the quality of your character, as opposed to the content of your wallet?
Before we became a throw-away society, and what we DID have for material wealth would last longer than a year and a half?
Before the central focus in the lives of the population became production for its own sake?
Back when life was worth living?
Back when the US government was the US government, and we werent giving up our rights rapidly "for the children"
Back when there was something "worth fighting for"
Back before breast augmentation surgery and facelifts created a direct correlation between beauty and wealth.
Back when you mattered, and your skin was secondary, and your clothing was tertiary?
What was it like before the world packed itself up and sent itself off to hell in a handbasket?
How long before the rest of the world realizes western civilization isnt all its cracked up to be and tries to get a grip on reality and existance?
We're so enchanted by what our science and technology can do, and how fast it can be done that we dont have time to get used to it.
We lack morally intellectually and spiritually the ability to properly deal with that which we create.
What was it like before all of this?
When was it that we switched to a disneyfied culture? To a throw-away culture? To a ignore-the-consequences culture? To a complete lack of moral responsibility?
When did it happen?
Why is it that it is perfectly normal for people to completely ignore and REFUSE the existance of responsibility.
Is culture and society in the middle of a suicide attempt? Have we given in? Is there no alternative to moving forward?
Is the current idea of "forward" really where we need to be going?
Questions, all questions... no answers.
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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.