http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfA1GlUM6Gw
[GWD.F.]
Cowardice, heart-deadness, lack of imagination, these are
the central characteristics of our age.
Yes this is a bit redundant with some other essays, video logs, but it's
so striking, so horribly forecast by James Lovelock; by Einstein who back in
the 50s said, paraphrase – ‘If there is no further scientific or technological
advance, it doesn't matter, but if morality does not catch up our technology,
it will be the end of humanity;’ and we are aggressively regressing, not
progressing, every decade since.
Every year students, college students I believe, for decades
now, have been studied for their level of empathy, and for the last 30 or more
years it's gone down every year. We are
becoming less human, less adaptive less viable as a species, and unless a few
of us rediscover, rekindle, re-exercise our humanity, the complexity and the
power of what we've unleashed on ourselves with the burning of fossil fuels
will result in our hellacious, over many generations, torture, death and
possible extinction. We're less than
human. We're less than we were born to
be. We're less than the indigenous we've
exterminated from this nation, from the world, by far.
We're the people that were seen in Hunger Games, in that
Emerald City, the walking, hideous, dead people. That's us friends. You think that's not what the author was
saying? Really?
Are you going to give (totally devote) your life to lead us
out of this? Or are you just going to
wash your hands of it, and leave the rest of humanity to the hell and high
water we've unleashed?
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