Quote from: WiseFoxxy on August 05, 2018, 11:54:14 AM

To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, we are neither improving nor getting worse. Every time we better ourselves at doing good, we also better ourselves at doing evil. The steady forces on both ends are kept constantly in balance.

So you can say that while we get better technologically, we lose part of ourselves in other ways. But it's not all doom and gloom. The things we get better at help us to recognize our failures, if we learn to listen. We just need to pay attention to these things.

And lifespans are getting shorter? How so? Modern medicine has made lifespans much longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson died in 1882. I think thinking have changed so much since then, than it's hard to quote him about what's happening in the world now. Let's just say that they didn't have Tinder back then. Wink

I don't think I can agree with that idea. You really think that good and evil are always equal forces? I think this is almost a pessimistic view. I believe that there is far more good in the world than bad. If there were that much bad, I think it would just take over the good. Bad in the world is a very small minority.