Despite sometimes feeling like there a lot of the Christians and Conservative’s, trying to drag us all back to sixteenth century Europe. And that some Muslims want to wind back the clock to the eleventh century. And a goodly chunk of the Jews would like to see the world return to sometime BC.
I honestly feel that humans are slowly improving things for everyone.
We are taking our universe apart to find out how it works. Reading DNA and conquering disease. We have better ways to communicate, and there is greater access to information.
Wealth used to be concentrated with Royalty and the church. Then it spread out to merchants and bankers, then farmers, and finally a degree of comfort (in western countries) is attainable by people all the way down to unskilled workers and such like.
Wealth is concentrated along country boundaries currently, but I feel that it will, and is spreading to places like India, and China, and Vietnam.
When I read about what it used to be like for ‘unskilled’ people, even just a couple of centuries ago in Europe, it’s got to be better these days.
The next step is to get everyone on the planet to at least a basic level of comfort.
If you look at how apathetic the grass roots are in most western countries, what with their basic food, shelter, and entertainment needs met. One would think that if everyone in the world had access to these things, suddenly most conflicts would disappear, cause no one could be bothered attacking anyone else?
I also feel that these amazing networks of communication that are being built (blogs being one) will bring us all closer to understanding, that we are all very similar.
Have a good weekend everyone
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