If this was the headline 50 years ago, we might have had a chance
Thats a devastating comment lausten. Quite soul crushing
1958: The Bell Telephone Science Hour
If we had taken any of this more seriously we might have had a chance - be we didn’t, gluttony is what we were busy celebrating. President Carter tried to take it seriously and he got crucified for his thoughtfulness - it’s why we went for the Hollywood dude with the message that Greed is Good and Too Much Is Never Enough.
Next we went for the insane dude who is blind to everything but his own shallow self aggrandizement, and a hateful attitude towards people and government in general, and with utter ignorance driven disregard for our life sustaining global biosphere.
As we devolved back into me, me, me, rather than the “melting pot” that created a new nation that we could boast about.
We still can’t face it.
Scientific knowledge ain’t poop when facing down emotions and desires and human self-delusion.. So we kid ourselves, if only, … would have, could have, but never bothered to.
Although looking at human history, it seems inevitable that we’d never be able to save ourselves from ourselves. Heck just consider what the morons-in-charge are doing the USFS
We knew but didn’t care enough to change a thing, still don’t.
Indian Opinion of the White Man (1817)
Long and dismal are the complaints which the Indians make of European ingratitude and injustice. They love to repeat them and always do it with the eloquence of nature, aided by an energetic and comprehensive language which our polished idioms cannot imitate. Often I have listened to these descriptions of their hard sufferings until I felt ashamed of being a white man.
They begin with … But how did they requite our kindness? They at first asked only for a little land on which to raise bread for themselves and their families and pasture for their cattle, which we freely gave them. They soon wanted more, which we also gave them. They saw the game in the woods which the Great Spirit had given us for our subsistence and they wanted that too. They penetrated into the woods in quest of game, they discovered spots of land which pleased them. That land they also wanted and because we were loth to part with it, as we saw they had already more than they had need of, they took it from us by force and drove us to a great distance from our ancient homes.”
“By and by the Dutchemaan arrived at Manahachtanienk. …
“We and our kindred tribes lived in peace and harmony with each other before the white people came into this country. Our council house extended far to the north and far to the south. In the middle of it we would meet from all parts to smoke the pipe of peace together. When the white men arrived in the south, we received them as friends. We did the same when they arrived in the east. It was we, it was our forefathers, who made them welcome and let them sit down by our side. The land they settled on was ours. We knew not but the Great Spirit had sent them to us for some good purpose and therefore we thought they must be a good people. We were mistaken, for no sooner had they obtained a footing on our lands than they began to pull our council house down first at one end and then at the other.
And at last meeting each other at the center, where the council fire was yet burning bright, they put it out and extinguished it with our own blood!
With the blood of those who with us had received them! Who had welcomed them in our land! Their blood ran in streams into our fire and extinguished it so entirely that not one spark was left us whereby to kindle a new fire. The whites will not rest contented until they shall have destroyed the last of us and made us disappear entirely from the face of the earth.”I have given here only a brief specimen of the charges which they exhibit against the white people. …
I have given here only a brief specimen of the charges which they exhibit against the white people. … They enslave those who are not of their color, although created by the same Great Spirit who created us. They would make slaves of us if they could but as they cannot do it, they kill us! There is no faith to be placed in their words.
They are not like the Indians who are only enemies while at war and are friends in peace. They will say to an Indian, ‘my friend! my brother!’ They will take him by the hand and at the same moment destroy him. And so you (addressing himself to the Christian Indians) will also be treated by them before long. Remember! That this day I have warned you to beware of such friends as these. I know the long knives. They are not to be trusted.”
Eleven months after this speech was delivered by this prophetic chief, ninety-six of the same Christian Indians, about sixty of them women and children, were murdered at the place where these very words had been spoken by the same men he had alluded to and in the same manner that he had described.
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No he didnt and gluttony is a characteristic of capitalism. Why would you change if you are constantly told by your media that there is no problem ?