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   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: ansaman@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/9/2021 4:45 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > Then there is the problem about how we invented all kinds of whatzits   
   > and forgot that what we really needed to change was ourselves.   
   >   
   > Humans are now hunter gatherer brains living in a world they don't   
   > understand.  Didn't choose.   
      
   I think we understand it way too well. No matter what   
   obstacles we overcome, we are never seemingly winners   
   because we then raise the standards. Buddha pointed   
   that out. We are never satisfied. If there is no suffering,   
   we generate it with ever greater desires. I have better   
   food, better living conditions, better medical care,   
   and more entertainment than anyone alive on the day   
   my grandfather was born in 1900. Of course, others   
   have a lot more than me and they are not satisfied.   
      
   We created this world. We chose it willingly and   
   knowingly. I am sorry, your perspective is totally   
   out of whack. Yes, we can do a lot more to preserve   
   the environment and we ARE doing a lot more. Where   
   did all these electric cars come from? All these   
   low energy LED light bulbs we don't burn fossil   
   fuel to run? The clean air standards that started   
   under Nixon! The environmental cleanup? Sorry, but   
   look at India and China... they have made their   
   countries into garbage cans, but who gets the   
   fingers pointed at them? We do because that suits   
   the forces that are competing with us politically   
   and economically on the world stage.   
      
   There is always room for improvement, but the   
   Church of Despair sells dissatisfaction wholesale   
   and it keeps the money rolling in.   
      
      
   --   
   **The AnsaMan**   
      
   In a recent self-evaluation:   
   "One of the greatest minds   
   produced since the invention   
   of the electric nose picker!"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)