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    21st Century Ideas: Who or what is to blame?

    Who or what has gotten us into this situation?

    Started by: Navarre Raves:4 Badge Winner! Influency

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    Is this situation something that could have been prevented? Something that someone should be held accountable for? Is this an inevitable consequence of the human mind or maybe intelligent life in general? Does it even matter after the fact?

    I'm not sure it even matters, except insofar as we don't want it to happen again.

    Very simple answer which has the strongest degree of thruth : unbridled reproduction. Our biology squared with intelligence has. We have suddenly evolved smart enough to develop abstract though, fantasy and tools - but we are not yet smart enough to restrict our epidemic dispersal over the planet. Very lethal combination, like an ADD teenager who gets a lambo for his 18th birthday. Will probably end up killing him.

    All of us got us into this. Global problems don't come about with more than enough blame to go around. Almost everyone is at least passively complicit.

    now isn't the time to point the finger, its important that we use every available recourse possible to prevent the situation from getting worse.

    I'll nominate Ruud Dirven for a badge, but I can't, due to the rudimentary programming on this site. Also: This game is too easy. Most of the solutions to the problems are already coined in theory, being negotiated in transnational entities like UN, G8, WTO and so forth. If you have the least bit of education in political science, sociology and related faculties, you can beat game without making a single post. Come again, IFTF.

    Crazy avenue stream of consciousness on this here convo, I must say. If you subscribe to the philosophy that we create our own reality - then if you feel we are experiencing a crisis you have played a role in creating it. Accepting that prepares you well for stepping up and claiming responsibility for helping get OUT of it! AT least doing so puts you in a better frame of mind towards finding solutions.




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