Is The World Going To Hell In A Handcart

[emmie]

whichever paper you read, or tv news item, there are wars, strife, conflict,
nowhere is really safe, not even in good old Britain, or is it just the same old story, mankind can't help but muck things up..

[emmie]

i remember that story, horrible, i have never liked ferries, though i have travelled on a few, one was the cheapest way to cross islands in Greece

[boxtops]

Don't watch, then, emmie - easily said, I know, but there's no point in letting it distress you.

[emmie]

i just can't help wonder at a world that is in such conflict, no good burying your head in the sands, its not about getting upset, but i don't understand where its all going - mankind is a useless creature by and large, doesn't know the good things that are there for them, why create more by endless wars

[ummmm]

Emmie, you talk like war and death is something new.

[boxtops]

I agree with ummm - it's always been happening, it's just that (if we choose to watch or read) we hear about it more quickly these days. War and ill-treatment is nothing new.

[pixie373]

What does not burying your head in the sand involve? Worrying about it?

[emmie]

it isn't and no i am not. However apart from WW1, WW2, we hadn't managed to kill each other in record numbers, because the type of weaponry wouldn't have made it possible, now it does. We hear more of conflicts of course, that is understandable, because of the media, internet,
however you can read of former wars, conflicts, and see that their weaponry was largely one on one, until the gun with repeating action came along, and then bombs, then the current nuclear arsenal,
as OG says with the current millennium one hoped for better things.

[emmie]

so you essentially think don't worry about it,

[ummmm]

I think don't worry about it. What good will worrying do? You can't change anything...

[jno]

yep, I don't worry about it.

[pixie373]

Yes, if you can't change it. Look after the things you can. I think that's what everyone needs to do really.

[Svejk]

I think you mean person-kind/human-kind, emmie.

[emmie]

no i meant mankind, that encompasses all of us.

[pastafreak]

I really don't think things have changed all that much...we just have better communications now. Picking a year at random,the first few months of 1952 saw 4-5 governments resign/collapse, wars and conflicts of various intensities,major fires, sinking/crashing of planes or ships,record rainfall and flooding,demonstrations and protests....the list goes on.
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1952

[pixie373]

Not to mention diseases, poverty and lower life expectancy.

[emmie]

but we can kill each other much more quickly and in greater numbers,

[emmie]

perhaps its not so bad, this is Britain after all, oh well

[pixie373]

We can- the population is bigger than ever- but we don't. It takes so long for civilisation to change, but it'll get there.

[tonyav]

emmie, I understand your concerns, but as others have said you orI worrying about it won't change a thing. ( I also think that most will be going to hell on a camel ! ).

[pastafreak]

We did in the past also...
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massacre.html
Over 600,000 in the US civil war....never realised it was so many. And 8 million in the Belgian Congo at the end of the 19th c.