Georgian/Russian War

[Steadygain]

Steady, May not be something to wish for. Have you been through a natural disaster, hurricane, flood, earthquake, etc. with major and extended loss of electrical power? Humanity declines rapidly with fighting over food, ice, water, etc. Saw some "civilized ?" folks lose that veneer fairly quickly in the turmoil after natural disasters. New Orleans as a prime example. Just a thought? Now to more pleasant things. Market corrections, bear market slides, and more fun things!

Hum..I'd say your right - a global natural disaster on the scale I was thinking would probably make humans much more "animal" than people.

I stand corrected. Apart from Global Devine Intervention - which thoroughly blinds us to the differences; instills a dominate loving and sacrificial attitude towards one another; and wipes out the long existing negative - prejudical - racist ... thoughts * then wiping out populations in Georgia; Iraq; Cambodia; Africa is an unavoidable consequence of the overall human condition.

 

[fabijo]

luv2read,

My reaction was along your lines when I read the papers and heard the news. They all have the same cry, "America, do something about this." I didn't hear once or read once about how it might look like a double standard.

Even when you ignore oil, it still sounds messed up. Here is the superpower of the world. It just destroyed two other nations' governments and is trying to set ones up like it's own. When another nation does something on a smaller scale than this, the superpower (still killing people in at least two countries) announces to the world how bad Russia is behaving.

The media's emphasis is on infrastructures, government philosophy, tanks, guns, buildings. Where are the dead humans? Our shock and awe killed thousands. Where's their freedom? "They were shooting at us, so they have no freedom." Well, most of them were defending themselves.

Freedom is not something someone can give you. You need to fight for it yourself. Who are we to tell people that we are giving them freedom? Doesn't that imply that we can take it away? Every institution is flawed. Maybe we should spend some more time correcting ours instead of bouncing around and crushing others.

Of course, I'd rather there be no institution, but that's a completely other discussion.