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<blockquote data-quote="kingius" data-source="post: 6263905" data-attributes="member: 85123"><p>We'll just have to agree to disagree on these aspects. Socrates was berating the youth of the day and not his society, thereby proving that some things are the same in any age.</p><p></p><p>Did you know that in feudal times the men of the village would ride out to meet approaching strangers? It was both a show of strength and a way to welcome strangers into the midst. </p><p></p><p>Did you know that during the recent riots in the UK, the Sikhs took to the streets (about 500 of them) to patrol their neighbourhood, which bordered the street where the rioting occured? They did this to stop it spilling over to their homes.</p><p></p><p>These are just two examples of the community spirit which we in the west have completely and utterly lost. Our big cities are full of strangers, our checkout staff operate like (and are in danger of being replaced by) machines, people confine themselves to purely digital lives (there are some who have even died playing World of Warcraft). To bury one's head in the sand about the transformation ... reduction... of the human race that is on going is to ignore what we have come from and the very things that make us human. For to know oneself one must also know the past and only then can one understand the present, never mind the future.</p><p></p><p>A steady diet of reality TV, a fantasy world of advertisments, constant lies from the media and politicians regularly robbing the public purse, all combined and all at once is a new phenonema. Never before in human history have we lived in times like these. Look around. Loyalty, justice, honour, love, harmony with the environment, morals and ethics... these are the real qualities of an advanced civilisation. We are not measuring up, you know this to be true, if you look inward to your heart and outward to the world around. Instead we're collectively obsessing about what sex someone is, what the latest celebrity is doing or wearing today, watching daft videos on youtube and scrambling to get ahead in a meaningless rat race or pretending to gun people down in computer games and trolling our fellow man online. Our ancestors would not be proud.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kingius, post: 6263905, member: 85123"] We'll just have to agree to disagree on these aspects. Socrates was berating the youth of the day and not his society, thereby proving that some things are the same in any age. Did you know that in feudal times the men of the village would ride out to meet approaching strangers? It was both a show of strength and a way to welcome strangers into the midst. Did you know that during the recent riots in the UK, the Sikhs took to the streets (about 500 of them) to patrol their neighbourhood, which bordered the street where the rioting occured? They did this to stop it spilling over to their homes. These are just two examples of the community spirit which we in the west have completely and utterly lost. Our big cities are full of strangers, our checkout staff operate like (and are in danger of being replaced by) machines, people confine themselves to purely digital lives (there are some who have even died playing World of Warcraft). To bury one's head in the sand about the transformation ... reduction... of the human race that is on going is to ignore what we have come from and the very things that make us human. For to know oneself one must also know the past and only then can one understand the present, never mind the future. A steady diet of reality TV, a fantasy world of advertisments, constant lies from the media and politicians regularly robbing the public purse, all combined and all at once is a new phenonema. Never before in human history have we lived in times like these. Look around. Loyalty, justice, honour, love, harmony with the environment, morals and ethics... these are the real qualities of an advanced civilisation. We are not measuring up, you know this to be true, if you look inward to your heart and outward to the world around. Instead we're collectively obsessing about what sex someone is, what the latest celebrity is doing or wearing today, watching daft videos on youtube and scrambling to get ahead in a meaningless rat race or pretending to gun people down in computer games and trolling our fellow man online. Our ancestors would not be proud. [/QUOTE]
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