how to save the world?

[OS]

Let's say hypothetically it looks like the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

What/where would a little guy do to go about trying to make a difference in the world.

 

[forrestroche]

Originally posted by: OS
Let's say hypothetically it looks like the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

What/where would a little guy do to go about trying to make a difference in the world.

The hypothetical is not hypothetical - it is a fact.

Whether you can do anything, THAT is the hypothetical.

And very hypothetical at that.

 

[imported_yetti]

the world IS going to hell in a handbasket.

 

[dug777]

...take care of his gf/family, i guess instead of paying taxes he could write off his tax on charitable donations...have a beer, listen to some pink floyd...

 

[DanTMWTMP]

one person can never do it alone 🙁.

we have to always collectively do it together. just do little things like making sure your immediately family/friends are safe and sound. I'm sure everyone will do the same, so that's the only thing one can do.

so ya, lay off on the console RPG's for a bit 😛 😛.

 

[sisq0kidd]

Originally posted by: OS
Let's say hypothetically it looks like the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

What/where would a little guy do to go about trying to make a difference in the world.

You learn how to evacuate a damn city.

 

[rubix]

i'd dig an elaborate system of tunnels and develop methods to use turnips in every possible aspect of my new underground life. then i'd kidnap people and convert them to mole people and reign supreme in my secret underground utopia of turnips and dirt.

 

[SilverThief]

pray

 

[IronWing]

Put at least as much thought into voting as one does in selecting his/her next video game purchase.

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: OS
Let's say hypothetically it looks like the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

What/where would a little guy do to go about trying to make a difference in the world.

The best thing any one person can do is to set a new standard through his/her own actions. Be the change you wish to see in the world. If you do it well, people will take notice and it will have a rippling effect upon others.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Put at least as much thought into voting as one does in selecting his/her next video game purchase.

Hell, I'd be happy of people put HALF as much thought into voting as to which brand of bread they're gonna buy from the grocery store.

 

[Amused]

That little guy would (hopefully) grow up, gain historical knowledge, and realize there is nothing new under the sun.

Why does every generation ignorantly believe they have it so bad, and human nature has suddenly taken a turn for the worst?

Is it because people like to remember only the good things about the past?

This also happens in older folks as well, when they start ranting about "kids today."

Again, nothing new under the sun...

 

[moshquerade]

hey Amused,


fsck off and die


yeh, you 😀

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
hey Amused,


fsck off and die


yeh, you 😀

Back at ya, babe! 🙂

 

[forrestroche]

Originally posted by: Amused
Why does every generation ignorantly believe they have it so bad, and human nature has suddenly taken a turn for the worst?

At the risk of forcing Mr. Amused to go back and edit his post, I am going to agree with him. It is related to the phenomena described in a piece in the International Herald Tribune about a year and a half ago.

Sampling newspaper opinion articles from the past century, the Trib found that every generation views the next as incompetent to inherit the future and sure to provoke it's ruin.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: Amused
Why does every generation ignorantly believe they have it so bad, and human nature has suddenly taken a turn for the worst?

At the risk of forcing Mr. Amused to go back and edit his post, I am going to agree with him. It is related to the phenomena described in a piece in the International Herald Tribune about a year and a half ago.

Sampling newspaper opinion articles from the past century, the Trib found that every generation views the next as incompetent to inherit the future and sure to provoke it's ruin.

It goes back further than that. Writers from the beginning of the written word have been expressing the "kids these days" lamentations.