Originally Posted by
Kozzle
Paradigm shifts do happen, albeit rarely, but they do happen under certain conditions. If they didn't happen the world would still be completely ran by the religious institutions because everyone would believe that this is the highest power. I don't expect any real sacrifices on anyone's part (except maybe to drop one's beliefs in a completely monetary-based system). There are ways to have a healthy medium except we haven't found those mediums. At the rate we are going do you think we can sustain our current system? It's only a matter of time before pollution is too great to face or that we run out of certain natural resources or what have you. It's not the system per se that is flawed, the problems we face are but symptoms of the cause: the consumer mindset that we are endowed with.
How can anyone expect ethical changes when it costs money to be ethical? The vast majority of the population is stuck in a financial situation where they can't afford to be ethical without considerably lowering their standards of living while we have the fat cats at the top who don't give a damn about any of it. THIS is the part that bothers me. We have the technology and resources to provide a decent standard of living to practically everyone; but that can't happen with a system like this ran by humans (read the book i suggested; it isn't the system we live in that is fucking us over but rather our mindset towards these issues).
Solutions are possible, we just aren't exploring them because most of the people who have the resources to accomplish anything are only worried about 1 thing: profit.
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