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SoLeftIAmRight

(4,883 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 10:32 AM Feb 2016

Why I think the world is a much more dangerous place today...


than I thought it was yesterday.

I am an Utopian. My thoughts are clouded more by what can and should be than what is. Too much science fiction literature, Star Trek syndrome. The world as one people mystified by the lines drawn on maps dividing us from them.

I watched the Republican debate late night and was horrified by the fight over who was the most crazy. It penetrated my thinking in a way that it never truly has before.

So, I wake this morning knowing that if here, in this open and information rich society, we can produce people like those debating last night there can only be much worse in places that close themselves from reality.

I still believe that most people of the earth would live in peace and with peaceful leaders things would be much better. But, even here we have the Bundy gang and and many other assorted nuts, many ever more dangerous.

Fear, fear, fear, did they get me?

I need a hug and some happy thoughts.



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Why I think the world is a much more dangerous place today... (Original Post) SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 OP
It does explain a lot, doesn't it? bemildred Feb 2016 #1
Human nature is a mixed bag. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #2
...... daleanime Feb 2016 #3
I understand. One big thing that too many people are not aware of is: It's the Sociopaths.. BlueJazz Feb 2016 #4
The world is much less dangerous today 1939 Feb 2016 #5
The 'threats' to the US associated with the cold war ronnie624 Feb 2016 #6

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. Human nature is a mixed bag.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 10:40 AM
Feb 2016

We're born highly malleable, and what we become is crucially influenced by our early interactions with our environment. It's easy enough to turn out hateful, greedy, entitled humans just as it is loving, sharing, selfless ones. Like physical abuse, mental abuse is perpetuated from generation to generation.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
4. I understand. One big thing that too many people are not aware of is: It's the Sociopaths..
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 10:46 AM
Feb 2016

...in our society/societies that do the most damage. The political and business/banking industry is infested with them. I'm saying this because they grab the headlines and the hearts of people (in a bad way).

We kind people vastly outnumber them but they get the attention.

1939

(1,683 posts)
5. The world is much less dangerous today
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 11:17 AM
Feb 2016

I have lived through World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, nuclear brink events, etc.

When was the last time you did a nuke drill?

It used to be a regular thing in school (get under your desk, put your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye).













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ronnie624

(5,764 posts)
6. The 'threats' to the US associated with the cold war
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 02:32 PM
Feb 2016

were mostly fabrications by US policy planners and propagandists, to drive the MIC.

Global climate change is a very real and current threat to human civilization.

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