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Maybe they've always been right. My wife is from a a developing country, and the incredible depth of the older generations who grew up without a drop of modern
by sgc 8y ago
Maybe they've always been right. My wife is from a a developing country, and the incredible depth of the older generations who grew up without a drop of modern media is striking. Of course it is a complex situation since they had many other factors in their upbringing, but it is telling -- especially because their ability to patiently listen to and truly see the other person seems at least intuitively related to the lack of modern media consumption, which simply gave them so much more practice socializing, and placed so much more value on it. It was where life was at.
- ianai 8y agoTV isn’t the rot of the western civilization/culture. It’s baked in much closer to the roots. We got two world wars well before any of this. And nukes.
- sgc 8y agoWar is the worst case scenario. It is not a good metric by which to measure a civilization or human growth, since we can be more refined, and virtually all wars are fought in self defense by one side - so say nothing at all about the quality of their way of life prior to the event.
- ianai 8y agoI refuse to discard the death of millions as a statistical outlier. Particularly when the next example would likely result in the end of human life - possibly all life - as we know it.
- sgc 8y agoWell then I expect you to note that the war was not "Western" only, and also take into account the extremely long and well documented history of war across this planet throughout human history. The danger of modern war is in technology, not culture.