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Wow, think about it. On one side we have Elon Musk, who wants to build a city on Mars, make interplanetary travels quick and cheap and he's doing it, there are

by akerro 10y ago

Wow, think about it. On one side we have Elon Musk, who wants to build a city on Mars, make interplanetary travels quick and cheap and he's doing it, there are people who want to kill you for your skin or hair colour. There is PM of Portugal who decriminalised drugs (saying: "drugs break families and relations, and so is facebook. We're not going to ban facebook") and there is a president who kills drug addicts, people in US, UK waste 1/3 of their bought food, Venezuela doesn't have water supplies in hospitals. Truly brave new world.

blowski 10y ago
Such extremes have existed since the beginning of civilisation. Compare the life of a medieval king to that of his subjects.
jacquesm 10y ago
"The future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed." http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/681-the-future-is-already-here-it-s-just-not-evenly http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/681-the-future-is-already-he... And it likely never will be. Unfortunately.
joe5150 10y ago
can you explain how a city on Mars is meant to contrast with racism or...hair colorism(?).
- akerro 10y ago
  Primitive opinions that harm random people against great futuristic ambitions that benefit everyone?
- alanwatts 10y ago
  >You have made tremendous strides in the area of scientific and technological development. But America, as I look at you from afar, I wonder whether your moral and spiritual progress has been commensurate with your scientific progress. It seems to me that your moral progress lags behind your scientific progress. Your poet Thoreau used to talk about "improved means to an unimproved end." How often this is true. You have allowed the material means by which you live to outdistance the spiritual ends for which you live. You have allowed your mentality to outrun your morality. You have allowed your civilization to outdistance your culture. Through your scientific genius you have made of the world a neighborhood, but through your moral and spiritual genius you have failed to make of it a brotherhood. So America, I would urge you to keep your moral advances abreast with your scientific advances -Dr. King, 1956 http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_pauls_letter_to_american_christians.1.html http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentse...

by akerro 10y ago

blowski 10y ago

Such extremes have existed since the beginning of civilisation. Compare the life of a medieval king to that of his subjects.

jacquesm 10y ago

"The future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed." http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/681-the-future-is-already-here-it-s-just-not-evenly http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/681-the-future-is-already-he... And it likely never will be. Unfortunately.

joe5150 10y ago

can you explain how a city on Mars is meant to contrast with racism or...hair colorism(?).

akerro 10y ago
Primitive opinions that harm random people against great futuristic ambitions that benefit everyone?
alanwatts 10y ago
>You have made tremendous strides in the area of scientific and technological development. But America, as I look at you from afar, I wonder whether your moral and spiritual progress has been commensurate with your scientific progress. It seems to me that your moral progress lags behind your scientific progress. Your poet Thoreau used to talk about "improved means to an unimproved end." How often this is true. You have allowed the material means by which you live to outdistance the spiritual ends for which you live. You have allowed your mentality to outrun your morality. You have allowed your civilization to outdistance your culture. Through your scientific genius you have made of the world a neighborhood, but through your moral and spiritual genius you have failed to make of it a brotherhood. So America, I would urge you to keep your moral advances abreast with your scientific advances -Dr. King, 1956 http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_pauls_letter_to_american_christians.1.html http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentse...