07-06-2016, 05:15 AM
Visit old cemeteries on the mainland and you will be struck at the number of young people who died. The dead young outnumbered the old. Even children of the very wealthy died in droves of infectious disease.
Then they discovered antibiotics, and young people sick with killer diseases took medicine and survived.
But people kept having large families. Not because they needed to ensure progeny, but because they always had. Everyone wanted the advantages of technology, but no one wanted to consider that those advantages came at a cost.
So now the world is becoming a place of grossly overpopulated failed states spewing young people who did not die of infectious disease as international migrants.
We love cruising the sky in jet airplanes, but don't want anyone to effectively deal with the consequences of transcontinental air travel in the global spread of vermin and plant diseases. No one has an ideological problem with air travel, we just do not want to be bothered with 'ideologically unacceptable' approaches to addressing the problems that arise from air travel.
Homo Sapiens. Man the Wise. So it goes.
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You can't fix Samsara.
Then they discovered antibiotics, and young people sick with killer diseases took medicine and survived.
But people kept having large families. Not because they needed to ensure progeny, but because they always had. Everyone wanted the advantages of technology, but no one wanted to consider that those advantages came at a cost.
So now the world is becoming a place of grossly overpopulated failed states spewing young people who did not die of infectious disease as international migrants.
We love cruising the sky in jet airplanes, but don't want anyone to effectively deal with the consequences of transcontinental air travel in the global spread of vermin and plant diseases. No one has an ideological problem with air travel, we just do not want to be bothered with 'ideologically unacceptable' approaches to addressing the problems that arise from air travel.
Homo Sapiens. Man the Wise. So it goes.
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You can't fix Samsara.