I saw this quote on a different forum:
Not only is this funny (only to me?), but it got me thinking of how I thought things would be in the year 2000. And, more to the point, how I feel things will be for my kids when they are adults.
I think I am an optimist - but whenever I see how world events seem to be playing out I fear for my kids. Sure, we had Russia vs. the USA - but we pretty much kept each other in check. Each country did stupid things, but everything as a whole seemed to be going pretty good. Sure, we had racial problems, but I think blacks were making great strides and as the new replaced the old it was going to get better for everyone.
But now - I only see us rushing headlong into a global religious war - extremists on both sides willing to destroy everything because their "God" tells them that they are right and everyone else is evil.
I don't think it's the Internet or the News that is causing the (my?) problem - I lived through Vietnam and Watergate and got my fill of the daily dose of bad news then.
I'm looking for your opinion on what you see the future like - do you think this is just a short term problem, like we have always had in the world, or do you see it as the start (continuation?) of a slide to the end?
When I was a child in the 70s I thought we'd have flying cars and would tour the moon by 2004. But no, we got men marrying men and crappy Star Wars prequels instead. The future sucks!
Not only is this funny (only to me?), but it got me thinking of how I thought things would be in the year 2000. And, more to the point, how I feel things will be for my kids when they are adults.
I think I am an optimist - but whenever I see how world events seem to be playing out I fear for my kids. Sure, we had Russia vs. the USA - but we pretty much kept each other in check. Each country did stupid things, but everything as a whole seemed to be going pretty good. Sure, we had racial problems, but I think blacks were making great strides and as the new replaced the old it was going to get better for everyone.
But now - I only see us rushing headlong into a global religious war - extremists on both sides willing to destroy everything because their "God" tells them that they are right and everyone else is evil.
I don't think it's the Internet or the News that is causing the (my?) problem - I lived through Vietnam and Watergate and got my fill of the daily dose of bad news then.
I'm looking for your opinion on what you see the future like - do you think this is just a short term problem, like we have always had in the world, or do you see it as the start (continuation?) of a slide to the end?