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It's worrisome, but I don't think it's anything like the 1930s. Nazis, Fascists, Communists, economic depression worldwide with uncertainty about the outcome. Now THAT was scary!
I'm not that old (33 yrs) but when I look at all that is going on in the world, I can't help but get a sickening feeling, like I'm standing on thin ice in the middle of lake afraid to move as the ice cracks and shifts all around me.
Anyone else? Does the media make it worse than it sounds or is our civilization really teetering on the edge of disaster?
No. We have the internet and thus know EVERYTHING that happens in minute detail. I mean think of how violent Europe used to be. Think of the bubonic plague? What would the internet say about 1/3 of Europe being wiped out.
It has always been unstable. Each decade has its challenges but the world feels much less dangerous today than it did when the USA and Soviet Union were squaring off during the Cold War.
I'm not that old (33 yrs) but when I look at all that is going on in the world, I can't help but get a sickening feeling, like I'm standing on thin ice in the middle of lake afraid to move as the ice cracks and shifts all around me.
Anyone else? Does the media make it worse than it sounds or is our civilization really teetering on the edge of disaster?
It's been worse. 33 - you would've been 12 or so in 1989? I have a decade on you, and I grew up knowing that the world was 15 minutes away from a global exchange of nuclear weapons. That was worse.
This is a kerfluffle in the grand scheme of things.
It's all part of the Master Plan. Do you think thousands of years of wars against Jews and Israel are just figments of history that have no bearing on anything? Considering that all of it is prophesied in the Bible, I personally have no trouble whatsoever believing what we're seeing is all part of the Plan.
Its been to long since we've had a good world war. As sad as it is, we are doing better, developing more, and most of our great achievements as a species have resulted from massive, over funded military campaigns to kill lots and lots of people.
The world generally feels most stable after a war with a very clear victor, because they usually have such a large military that when they say jump, the world says how high.
After WWII, the United States was the only real functioning country with a extremely large manufacturing sector that wasn't needed. This made private business owners innovate to have new industries to fill those factories, and there was no other country capable of meeting the free market demand for manufactured goods like we were for 20 years after the war, and the world still hasn't caught up to us.
Life was easier when there was us versus the godless commies, even the Taliban was on our side. The only downside was that they had the same ability to destroy the world as we did, but there were only two choices
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