Any Hope For Us?

[Baron99]

10 minutes ago, Waldo said:

I can be, how much does it pay!?

Does £50  for 3 hours get rid of all your woes?  If so, you've nothing  abouy

 

 

[Anna B]

We are an amazing problem solving species. I refuse to believe that there is no problem that cannot be solved to give our species the best chance of survival into the distant future. We have survived 70 / 80 years with nuclear weapons, and learned how to deal with them, and war is going out of fashion. No doubt new problems will emerge which we will deal with.

We are supposed to be an intelligent species. Let's hope that's enough for sense to prevail.

[Al Bundy]

4 minutes ago, Anna B said:

We are an amazing problem solving species. I refuse to believe that there is no problem that cannot be solved to give our species the best chance of survival into the distant future. We have survived 70 / 80 years with nuclear weapons, and learned how to deal with them, and war is going out of fashion. No doubt new problems will emerge which we will deal with.

We are supposed to be an intelligent species. Let's hope that's enough for sense to prevail.

You obviously ain't be reading about all this gender nonsense then.

[Anna B]

Just another blip which will sort itself out.

[Al Bundy]

1 minute ago, Anna B said:

Just another blip which will sort itself out.

You would like to think so wouldn't you.

[hackey lad]

8 hours ago, The_DADDY said:

And?

Yea but no but 

[Waldo]

10 hours ago, Baron99 said:

Does £50  for 3 hours get rid of all your woes?  If so, you've nothing  abouy

 

 

Nope, you’ll be looking at £50 per hours, plus expenses and travel costs.

[ECCOnoob]

14 hours ago, Anna B said:

We are an amazing problem solving species. I refuse to believe that there is no problem that cannot be solved to give our species the best chance of survival into the distant future. We have survived 70 / 80 years with nuclear weapons, and learned how to deal with them, and war is going out of fashion. No doubt new problems will emerge which we will deal with.

We are supposed to be an intelligent species. Let's hope that's enough for sense to prevail.

Is it???

 

War might have evolved from what traditionally people see it as. It may longer not be vast armies across the globe warring with each other. But conflict, power, possession and one upmanship  is just as prevalent today than it ever was. 

 

There are various civil wars happening right now all over the place.

 

There are emerging nations battling with each other to be top dog in a race to become westernised and commercialised.  

 

There are huge numbers of radicalised terrorist groups and dictatorships committing monstrous atrocities every day.

 

They are land grabs and power struggles and invasions happening right now even close to home in Europe.

 

There are hacking attacks, ransom blocks, fraud and critical system failure threats which are all types cyber warfare happening all over our global communications network systems.

 

We have the tribalist extreme left and right political agendas and the war of information all over our media, literature and online resources.  Extreme polarised opinions all battling each other for prominence and credibility with the masses.

 

I'm not sure what sort of dream like vision you have of the world, but in my opinion war is certainly not going out of fashion. I have said many times before, we may be an 'intelligent' species but inbuilt primal instincts don't go away. There is always the fight for one's own survival and dominance.  There will always be those who take the extreme approach. There will always be those who unexpectedly transform and only show their true aggression when the going gets tough.  

 

It's easy to chant 'War is bad' and portray a demeanour of all peace and loving when everything runs smoothly. But you watch how people change if it really hits the fan.  

 

That's why war is never going to go away. The methods may change but the basic principle is still there.

Edited January 15, 2023 by ECCOnoob

[echo beach]

On 14/01/2023 at 18:34, Waldo said:

Being able to choose between effectively, 2 parties, one of whom then goes on the govern (or more like, mis-govern) the country for 4 years; is a bit like being given the choice of paint colour for a respray of the Titanic, mid-Pacific.

Sorry Waldo, that's a new one on me. I never knew they took the scenic route to America!

 

echo.

[Waldo]

1 hour ago, echo beach said:

Sorry Waldo, that's a new one on me. I never knew they took the scenic route to America!

 

echo.

OMG, yeah, my poor convoluted brain.

 

Confession time: I spend a good couple of minutes thinking, is it big (Pacific) or the small (Atlantic) ocean; and I still got it wrong! I was thinking, that bit of water between Europe and America, that's pretty big, must be the Pacific!

 

*sigh*

 

I guess geography isn't one of my strong points.