Well, just ponder this finally - in the 21st Century, the wealth, power, and knowledge exist for the first time in history to solve most of the world's problems. But, it doesn't happen. Question - Who takes the blame?
Aah but there's the rub. See, I think the worlds not too bad a place.(well, no sh*ttier than it was before) We have more than enough room and make more than enough food for everyone. We've stopped exterminating animals for the hell of it. We don't fight any more wars than we used to, we've only got better at it. But that's the downside of technology and its a price I'm prepared to pay for my warm house, DVD's and cheap holidays in Greece.
I'm happy being a human, in fact, being at the top of the food chain makes me downright delerious. We're never gonna get rid of disease, natures always going to take potshots at us, we';re always afraid of some catalysm (war, global warming. God) and we can be a greedy bunch of mothers. But I reckon the vaste majority of humans on this planet are warm, fed, and in no immediate danger of a grizzly death. Miserable, but safe.
It ain't perfect, but I reckon we do OK.
Phew. Human and proud, that's me.[/quote]
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Yes, there's enough food for everyone to go around - But, THEY ARE NOT GETTING IT!
Every year, 6 million people die of starvation and preventable disease. It's the equivalent of holocaust annually - holocaust by neglect, neglect of the leaders of the 'free world' who have no real interest in taking freedom to the rest of the world.
A vast minority of humans in the world are underfed and dying of starvation. The leaders of the developed world who trumpet freedom - Bush, Blair, Chirac, etc. - are GENOCIDALISTS BY NEGLECT!!!
Don't you agree with that? How Can They Sleep? How come they don't wake up at 3 AM pouring with sweat from their consciences? Because they have no real conscience over the matter!!!
That's why!!!!By, the way, we might one day get rid of disease. The human genome unravelling looks very promising. Let's be optimistic where we can, at least!
Finally, just to bring it back to a Beatles theme; John Lennon would have done a better service to anyone if he had made his song How Do You Sleep against the cunning leaders of the west, rather than his good old friend Paul Macca.
