(November 6, 2015 at 7:59 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 6, 2015 at 7:18 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ... until enough of us keep speaking out. Yes, Milgram's experiments paint a disheartening picture of us as a species, but progress doesn't happen in one lifetime. We do, however, see it.
Do you really think we came a long way since 1945? That's not criticizing your optimism, but the slogans I hear these days are eerily familar. There's a reason why I talked about pissing on the grave of Justice Jackson. Truth is, as noble as his intent may have been, he utterly failed.
It's actually in the first few seconds of his adress.
The capacity for mob dynamics still exists but I'm not sure wars of conquest are as viable as they used to be. I think Thumpa has a point there. No one imagines marching into countries and enslaving the population. I don't think many people would be willing to resettle in the conquered land to that end. (You could rightly mention Israel as a possible exception and the Russians are still spread out into the states of the former USSR.)
But I don't fault humans for having destructive drives. I just fault us for viewing the planet as our very own petri dish, anything else in it serves us or get crowded out.
