Hawktawk wrote:You called this Asea. I really never believed they would actually be able to do it or would have the balls.
As for us being in "a far better world than we've ever been in" you really lost me there.....Id say in the ways that matter most which is charity, honesty, common decency, moral compass and so forth it's never been worse. American citizens and politicians are apathetic or worse, selfish and transactional,greedy and morally bankrupt or at least apathetic about those who are. Only if your idea of best is technology or the markets is it the best ever.
You gotta stop buying into the media driven BS and read your history books. There is more charity, a better standard of living, more people being fed, less war, and a more focused, united, and agreeable attempt to help humans than at any point in history.
I know you and most of older folks grew up watching TV shows like Little House on the Prairie, The Brady Bunch, Andy Griffith, and the like, but those shows were shows. When you look at the real history of the times those shows were made int, you''re looking rampant acceptable racism, Vietnam and other wars before it, ghettos, mistreatment of women, poorer nations all around, South African Apartheid, The Cold War, JFK sleeping around with Marilyn Monroe, presidential assassinations, and the like.
Sometimes I think people are overwhelmed by the speed and general material generation of the media nowadays. They are inundated with negative news that didn't exist when they were young because they did not have the Internet and the 24 hour news cycle. Even with all this material we're getting, the world is still far, far better and more people are being helped than at any point in history. We are better morally than before even with less religious people. There is a very pro human philosophy among the people of the world that is being pushed across all nations by the advent of social media so that even folks living in China, Russia, and nearly every other place know there are more free and better ways to live.
And Trump, he's small potatoes. You having lived longer than me should be able to see that. You were alive during the Cold War when Russia and America were feuding across many nations fueling military strife. It's far more stable around the world than it was regardless of how many media pundits try to say otherwise.
I think a lot of people are always looking for the worst spun up by the media. If you took a step away from the constant news cycle trying to drag you in ten different ways and looked at the world and how stable it is, you would feel better. Especially in a nation as insulated from suffering as the United States where most of the suffering is self-inflicted.