Balance

[Chantico]

Maybe it’s just a sign that I am getting old when I remember things like Toffler’s “Future Shock” that made waves. But an awful lot of governmental departments, think tanks, Universities and other social organizations seem to have gone to sleep while the shocks started happening and continue to happen.

Yeah, the criminal rich have intelligent folks on their side. Over the years, they grew the Corporatacracy and Neo-fascism just as smoothly as Tony Soprano could. The siren song of fun new things is hard to resist for most people and they are easily distracted. So much to the point that they don’t even realize the dumbed down schooling their own children receive.

Technology is moving very fast and it is exciting and wonderful on many levels and the possibilities of breakthroughs to solve medical problems and energy problems are there. However, there are the social implications of this speed that are devastating.

While those with money find themselves having to study before they even go to the store, those without money find themselves wondering what new crumbs (copper wire recycling) they have to adapt to before they can eat.

The growing divide is growing quickly.

The apathy is growing too.

I. Got. Mine.

No Balance.

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Yeah, but what can I DO?

A start: The next time someone blames the victims, you speak up. It ain't easy to educate, but a dissenting voice is necessary to break through the horrid conformity that is destroying humankind for the benefit of a few so-called people.

[Lex]

1. Speaking up is sometimes hard, but I think it's very important.

I agree, and it took me a while to learn to bluntly say, "That's not funny" to a cruel ethnic joke, or to offer my opposing opinion to a freeper-esque jackass ranting about the poor wanting to be poor.

Some are surprised when I object because they are so far in the Rush-Hannity-O'Reilly echo-chamber that they forgot that not everyone agrees with their idiotic, self-centered, ignoramus viewpoint.