(October 9, 2017 at 6:26 pm)Khemikal Wrote:Don't take it literally. It was meant to be metaphorical all the way; and even literally, these gardens were grown to aid the "war effort" from feeding the troops to raising their morals.(October 9, 2017 at 6:16 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Seeing the goodness is one thing; expecting it is totally different. It so many different variables (including when; what the state of fortune the person has...etc)..Who expects that? Though...I do want to point out...that soldiers in ww1 did, in fact, grow gardens in the trenches. Celery was a favorite, positively loving the trench environment and all. There's humanity for you, even in the trenches we have time to water the daisies. We don;t stop being human beings just because we're at war.
In other words; expecting to grow a garden in the trenches of WW1 is a very optimistic thinking and somehow gullible.
Quote:IDK, it hasn't managed to do so yet, and obviously good people are out doing good things. Comorbidity of your religion aside, it's difficult to understand the deep well of pessimism you have regarding humanity as we make global improvements in every meaningful metric and have been doing so for quite some time now.
The industrial age came to be because of war and seeking military superiority, I won't call that "good people doing good things".
My pessimism springs from observing humans. Give me something that was ought to be great; and a human must come to ruin it by spreading negativity and selfish ideas.
