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Osayidan wrote on 2010-12-18 23:01

This was a speech in 1992. There's a lot of cornyness tossed it for dramatic effect but the core concepts she's explaining are 100% correct.

Now at the end of 2010 and we're no better.

[video=youtube;6Sb6RmRMbBY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sb6RmRMbBY[/video]
Cucurbita wrote on 2010-12-18 23:07

Her dad wrote it for her QQ
gentrone wrote on 2010-12-18 23:28

Yet what are we doing to make this world a better place? Wasting money on stuff we don't really need, the money spent on a 10 NX card could easily feed a child for a week in third world countries. But, the question remains, why the hell should we care? Because they're humans? Why were their parents so irresponsible to bring a child to this world knowing they couldn't give them food or shelter in the first place?
BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-12-18 23:57

Too bad plans are ruined because they dont work with people.
EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-12-19 00:19

I guess from a child's view, all those things would make sense. However, reality isn't as simple as the child puts it that way.

George Carlin's video would make an excellent reply to this:
[video=youtube;eScDfYzMEEw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw[/video]
Osayidan wrote on 2010-12-19 00:31

Carlin's view makes sense from a multi-million year viewpoint, neutral to the human species. It's also hilarious.
The problem is we're here, now, living in our own filth and making it worst. Although the pollution and extinct species isn't a huge issue to me, it's more about how humans treat each other. We're all human and we're all stuck here for at least a few hundred years longer until we can colonize space, so why do we allow such retarded things like money, politics and religion to ruin so many lives?
Chillax wrote on 2010-12-19 00:48

Quote from Osayidan;252567:
Carlin's view makes sense from a multi-million year viewpoint, neutral to the human species. It's also hilarious.
The problem is we're here, now, living in our own filth and making it worst. Although the pollution and extinct species isn't a huge issue to me, it's more about how humans treat each other. We're all human and we're all stuck here for at least a few hundred years longer until we can colonize space, so why do we allow such retarded things like money, politics and religion to ruin so many lives?

I think Gentrone said it well by asking, "What have you done for other human beings?"
Osayidan wrote on 2010-12-19 01:10

Quote from Chillax;252583:
I think Gentrone said it well by asking, "What have you done for other human beings?"

Nothing anymore, since I gave up hope on humanity by the time I was 12, and have been disgusted at being part of this species since about 15.
When I was little I was always participating in school charities and "adopted" some kid in Africa with one of those school programs where you pay them money and you get to exchange communications with the kid. My innocent little mind thought that nonsense made any kind of difference.

The reality of our situation is that you can recycle all you want, donate all the money you want, be it 1 dollar or a billion dollars, but nothing will change. The problem is the system we're in, where a handful determine the fate of the rest of us. Your billion dollar donation might build hospitals and feed half of Africa, but then all those people will die from war and other conflicts driven by political situations. You can get a whole city to recycle by educating them and imposing laws mandating it, but the big corporation nearby will waste more in a month than your city will save in a year.

Government, religion, and economic systems are the problem and most humans are either too naive or too smart to be willing to change that. It's going to take a complete tear-down of civilization caused by a major catastrophe, so that everything comes down at the same time, to allow new ideals to prosper. I await that eagerly.

Maybe to help humanity I should fund a project to lure a massive meteor to hit the earth.