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I thn that we are more likely to enter a dark age if the dropout rate contimues. Remeber that the industrial revoltion and the rise of teh western culture was when christianiyt was at its highest. that lays mott to the idea that reglion has anyhtig to do with the problems we are seeing now. Its more the secular ;I want it thanh anyhting else but not wanting to work for it.
This reasoning crossed my mind once or twice as well.
To be honest, I was amazed that no one intervened when Taliban blew up the antique Buddha statutes and especially forced women into burqa's, denied them access to education, forbided them to leave the house by themselves and relegated them to the position of animals, forced to walk behind their husbands, and effectively condemning the widows without sons to starvation as couldn't go out without the company of a male relative. In spite of the outrage of women organizations all over the world, other governments chose to treat these abuses as Afghanistan's internal affairs and no one read the obvious signs of extremism that later brought tragedy to this country.
We are all in it together is the high price lesson of our times.
As financial collapses keep proving in the domino effect of today's world economy.
People WERE intervening, at least on behalf of the Afghani women pre 9/11. Mavis Leno, wife of Jay, was one of them.
Not that this was government intervention, of course.
It's a group called The Feminist Majority, that was working to help Afghani women since 1996.
I thn that we are more likely to enter a dark age if the dropout rate contimues. Remeber that the industrial revoltion and the rise of teh western culture was when christianiyt was at its highest. that lays mott to the idea that reglion has anyhtig to do with the problems we are seeing now. Its more the secular ;I want it thanh anyhting else but not wanting to work for it.
I thn that we are more likely to enter a dark age if the dropout rate contimues. Remeber that the industrial revoltion and the rise of teh western culture was when christianiyt was at its highest. that lays mott to the idea that reglion has anyhtig to do with the problems we are seeing now. Its more the secular ;I want it thanh anyhting else but not wanting to work for it.
you can't always look to the past to emulate because if the past is not understood correctly.
the industrial age of course brought a lot of activity and jobs and especially with war but that is one phase. there are flurries and there are settled times. it's unrealistic to expect that to be a constant.
what society needs to do is redefine themselves and redefine society in what is best way to live. it may involve changes or even original changes never made before as well as some from the past.
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Many of the world’s problems are due to the fact that the Human Race has already devolved.
It won’t be too long before we are back up in the trees swinging from branch to branch looking for bananas.
this is not realistic either because there has also been positive evolution and there was unprogressive aspects of the past that were corrected.
it's never going to be perfect, it's just recognizing what is good and worth to keep and what needs to be changed for the better.
I thn that we are more likely to enter a dark age if the dropout rate contimues. Remeber that the industrial revoltion and the rise of teh western culture was when christianiyt was at its highest.
So was the inquisition, anti-semitism, slavery, lynchings, segregation, oppression of women etc etc etc. Oopsie!
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that lays mott to the idea that reglion has anyhtig to do with the problems we are seeing now.
You mean "moot?" Not hardly..
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Its more the secular ;I want it thanh anyhting else but not wanting to work for it.
That's hardly a secular ideal. Sounds more like religionists.
This nation was founded on hard working secular idealists.
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