Ron <r...@jadero.com> wrote: >> I am afraid that "not in my lifetime" is one of the reasons we are in this >> mess in the first place...
> That is the main reason I switched from trying to convince people to pay > attention to the problems we're creating to trying to just get people to think > beyond themselves and beyond what they can imagine for their immediate > future. We can't fix or prevent any major problem as long as we're a bunch > of selfish assholes. Blunt, but true! It's been said that man is one of the few creatures that can think; and the only one that avoids it whenever possible. Instead, people prefer to let others think for them, or rely on "we've always done it this way". You can't use reason to talk such a person out of a position that wasn't reasonable in the first place. This attitude is a disaster waiting to happen. I have this nightmare... I'm riding in a bus on a foggy night, which is heading toward a major bridge. I'm listening to my pocket radio, and an announcer says the bridge has just collapsed! So I try to warn the driver, but he says, "Baloney. It couldn't fall." He won't stop. I try to convince the passengers, but no one will listen. No one listens, no one will stop. And the bus goes off the bridge, and I'm falling, falling... and wake up in a cold sweat. -- It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -- Albert Einstein -- Lee A. Hart https://www.sunrise-ev.com _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
