blazeofglory
06-17-2009, 03:00 AM
Of course we have many things to glory over and we in point of fact cannot be un-reactive to the goings-on. No wonder we have achieved greatly and scaled greater heights in terms of science and technology; we have eradicated great many fatal diseases and have eased our life styles hundredfold. We have developed land and urbanized many villages with so many roads, hospitals, schools and colleges. Our life styles today are speedier many times. This world has been a little village in terms of distance and time. We have virtual links both in terms of geography and time. Resources have been harnessed; and flora and fauna are brought to heel.
We have the Internet and we kind of make and break relationships at a click. We have made the planet more productive thru improved husbandries and frugal farming mechanisms. We are getting richer and there is more abundances today than ever before. Of course thru implementation sterilization and contraception we have controlled and manageable family structures. Children are more educated and have access to technological equipments. We live in bigger buildings. There are more flows of communications across geographies and political frontiers. We feel more universal, internationally inclined than our predecessors. Gradually we assimilate or submerge into bigger cross-culture thru acculturation. Globalization and trade liberalization or open economies are some of the new philosophies that have narrowed socioeconomic gaps, and evened up national frontiers.
There are many aspects and attributes to take pride in in point of fact and today more than ever before our living conditions have been improved, and our health facilities have never so much upped. We have explored the heavens, dived into the seas and mined great mineral reserves. Our homes are air-conditioned; we move by giant expeditious cars, trains and zets.
Of course there are many sides of scientific advances for us to glory in just unimaginable a century ago.
However with all our achievements notwithstanding it is hard to say things have bettered. All these enhancements supports the fact that consumerism is at the apex. Consumerisms alone cannot give the happiness we have been seeking over millennia.
Let us see the negative side effects. Today we have more numbers of fundamentalists. Religious, cultural, racial divisions are steeper than ever before. There are more cases of divorces, family split-ups, suicides, and suicide-bombers, atrocities of civil war.
Slavery seems to have been eliminated ostensibly; colonialisms put an end to, fanaticisms and bigotries paralyzed. But all these only on the surface, but there are some entrenched slaveries, and colonialism has taken its bigger disguised forms into commercial colonialisms which are deadlier than any perceived ones. Nature has been ravaged, and in the name of land development and construction works Earth has been mutilated. The sea has been contaminated, and the atmosphere polluted. Man’s never ending greed has made this planet a worse place to live in. Environmentalists have warned that if the tempo of polluting the planet keeps on gearing up at this tempo we will completely ecologically damage our planet. The more we keep on developing ourselves technologically, industrially the uglier we will make this planet.
Our civilization will have to pay the price for the faults it has: This will decay if we take no concerns at all. Is the return to a world of simplicity the only solution left to us?
We have the Internet and we kind of make and break relationships at a click. We have made the planet more productive thru improved husbandries and frugal farming mechanisms. We are getting richer and there is more abundances today than ever before. Of course thru implementation sterilization and contraception we have controlled and manageable family structures. Children are more educated and have access to technological equipments. We live in bigger buildings. There are more flows of communications across geographies and political frontiers. We feel more universal, internationally inclined than our predecessors. Gradually we assimilate or submerge into bigger cross-culture thru acculturation. Globalization and trade liberalization or open economies are some of the new philosophies that have narrowed socioeconomic gaps, and evened up national frontiers.
There are many aspects and attributes to take pride in in point of fact and today more than ever before our living conditions have been improved, and our health facilities have never so much upped. We have explored the heavens, dived into the seas and mined great mineral reserves. Our homes are air-conditioned; we move by giant expeditious cars, trains and zets.
Of course there are many sides of scientific advances for us to glory in just unimaginable a century ago.
However with all our achievements notwithstanding it is hard to say things have bettered. All these enhancements supports the fact that consumerism is at the apex. Consumerisms alone cannot give the happiness we have been seeking over millennia.
Let us see the negative side effects. Today we have more numbers of fundamentalists. Religious, cultural, racial divisions are steeper than ever before. There are more cases of divorces, family split-ups, suicides, and suicide-bombers, atrocities of civil war.
Slavery seems to have been eliminated ostensibly; colonialisms put an end to, fanaticisms and bigotries paralyzed. But all these only on the surface, but there are some entrenched slaveries, and colonialism has taken its bigger disguised forms into commercial colonialisms which are deadlier than any perceived ones. Nature has been ravaged, and in the name of land development and construction works Earth has been mutilated. The sea has been contaminated, and the atmosphere polluted. Man’s never ending greed has made this planet a worse place to live in. Environmentalists have warned that if the tempo of polluting the planet keeps on gearing up at this tempo we will completely ecologically damage our planet. The more we keep on developing ourselves technologically, industrially the uglier we will make this planet.
Our civilization will have to pay the price for the faults it has: This will decay if we take no concerns at all. Is the return to a world of simplicity the only solution left to us?