I'm sure the really hard-right with agree with you on the changes over the last few decades. Only what you call better, they call worse and they plan to reverse all of those disturbing trends now that they control everything for the foreseeable future. They just might.
What worries me is not so much what the Neanderthals accomplish on the social front. It may not be possible to undo past discrimination and bigotry but you can eliminate it from the present and (hopefully future) generations. And setbacks can be reversed. That doesn't apply, however, to the environment. I may grow old in a less tolerant and less free world than I would like (and I know that Social Security will be long gone by the time I need it) but I wonder if my nephews' and nieces' children and grandchildren will even have a world to grow old in. I can ridicule and laugh at their social agenda but what they're doing to the environment (with lots of help from all or most of us, it must be admitted) is too scary to ridicule.
Maybe I just read too much Schopenhauer at an impressionable age and haven't been able to shake off the pessimism ever since.
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Date: 2004-12-12 19:02 (UTC)What worries me is not so much what the Neanderthals accomplish on the social front. It may not be possible to undo past discrimination and bigotry but you can eliminate it from the present and (hopefully future) generations. And setbacks can be reversed. That doesn't apply, however, to the environment. I may grow old in a less tolerant and less free world than I would like (and I know that Social Security will be long gone by the time I need it) but I wonder if my nephews' and nieces' children and grandchildren will even have a world to grow old in. I can ridicule and laugh at their social agenda but what they're doing to the environment (with lots of help from all or most of us, it must be admitted) is too scary to ridicule.
Maybe I just read too much Schopenhauer at an impressionable age and haven't been able to shake off the pessimism ever since.