Life Before The Internet
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what the world would have been like if we had the Internet in the 60’s. We only had books, newspapers, magazines and network TV. I envy the youth of today. You have so many more tools to change your world.
Today with all the information available at our fingertips many of us are still mislead by misinformation. We still have unjust wars, children are still dying of hunger and malnutrition, bigotry and hate are still alive and well. Most of the problems that many in my generation tried to end are still with us.
My biggest hope is that our youth will learn from our mistakes and use these new tools available today to change their world into a better place for themselves and their children.
Knowledge is a small part of the equation……….selfishness, jealousy, and vanity will always exist, unfortunately.
Good blog, Allah. I wish it were so but nothing has changed about the insides of human brains. Until it does, things will always be about the same.
Sounds like a plan to me.
And we played in the fresh air and we had imaginations and we knew if we didn’t play nice, we were gonna get “in trouble”. Nope…we had the better childhood. I don’t envy children of today.
I am, however, sorry for the mess made by prior generations. Unfortunately, I am afraid our generation made the bigger mess with our “if it feels good, do it” frame of mind, drugs, sex and rock n roll. The generations that followed simply felt entitled. If I could go back in time, I would love to do my childhood over because it was great, but when I became an adult, I surly would do some things different/better if I had the opportunity for a do-over… Even so, it has been a great life!
Forgive me, Allah, for what I am about to say to you. And though it will almost certainly fail to mitigate the blasphemic nature of my intended comment, I would never the less have you know that I am making it not with the intent to insult, but rather the opposite. An insult would be to learn of a peer’s misconception, or misplaced hopes, and after learning of it, to say nothing about it… or worse yet, make confirmational or supportive comments to further solidify that which can only lead to heartache and bitter regret and cynicism.
Do not hold too tightly to your hope for the youth to rise to a greater plateau of humanity… And trust in the fact that with the exception of the scientific world community, which has progressively built upon the achievements of their predecessors, the majority of mankind has, and will continue to hold fast to the same characteristics which have predominantly defined mankind as a species since the first of our ancestors decided to stand upright on two legs, [because it provided a larger viewpoint, and in addition freed up the hands to facilitate the wielding of weaponry to aid in killing, and constructing]. History has by and large repeated itself since it’s first recording.
The internet, depite all its potential for the acquirement of knowledge [or perhaps, partly because of this “benefit”] will not serve to eradicate, by even the most infinitesimal degree, mankind’s transgressions against mankind, and his environment.
As I sit here typing keystrokes into a machine with more raw computational power than would have fit into a device the size of a 4 story building in the 1960’s, somewhere in the world, right this minute, there are a large population of fellow humans that firmly believe in the righteousness of… for example… hurling heavy stones at a woman [because she revealed a couple inches of bare leg in a public place] until she passes into death from blunt force trauma.
Trends in the youth of today are in no way evidence that there’s grounds for hope for a kinder, gentler world of tomorrow. And when gigahertz give way to terrahertz, kindness, on a worldwide scale, will still be perceived as weakness, to be exploited and capitalized on by any means necessary.
Should any of this seem unbearably narrowminded or overwhelmingly offensive, I am going to provide an alternative comment here:
Peace, love, and happiness. Smile on your brother, everybody get together- try and love one another right now. World without end, amen.
there are a large population of fellow humans that firmly believe in the righteousness of… for example… hurling heavy stones at a woman
^^^fuck yeah I love throwing rocks….
Mike you lovable /b/astid you made me work to pull that joke out of your comment