tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831869481818847436.post9071738542676983260..comments2008-12-11T21:08:13.671-05:00Comments on Lessons For a New World: Here We Go Again and again and again and again…..Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08442419546836689939noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831869481818847436.post-88858701799979063952008-12-05T21:09:00.000-05:002008-12-05T21:09:00.000-05:00have read this post first. I think that you are a ...have read this post first. I think that you are a Hobbesian--without governments, life is nasty, brutish and short! I hope that you will continue with this blog. It provokes thought.<BR/><BR/>Maybe our problem is that to be human is to be flawed. Every noble impulse has an opposite and ignoble aspect. The person who wishes to rule, to create a better city, state, country, world is motivated by a desire to do good, but also must have abit of ego, a desire for power in order to pursue the position of leader. If the fiollowers are lucky, the person tempers his.her ego and is satisfied with the adulation of the followers and works to serve the interests of them all. But as we see too often, power does corrupt, and there are cruel, despotic leaders sprinkled around the world who inflict nothing but misery on their populations in order to aggrandize their own sense of self-worth.<BR/><BR/>Of course, we have been repeating the cycle that you speak of since the beginning of humankind. Civilizations rise and fall, and another comes along to replace it and the cycle begins anew. I like to think that perhaps we learn something from each collapse and come away with a touch more wisdom, but I suspect that it is wishful thinking on my part. Perhaps, this is who we are meant to be, our purpose to strive for that which we can't achieve, a world where there is respect for life and promoting the well being of all. Perhaps there is a method to the madness--war, famine, and poverty serve as population control. Natural disasters wipe out far more people at one time thatn we've figured out to do with all of our technology. Perhaps this is as it is intended to be, a sort of imposed balance lest we expand beyond the resources of this planet we call home.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04614116686638969278noreply@blogger.com