Why has the world gotten itself in such a hurry? Time slips away and life is less meaningful than it was.?

Question

As people try to be more efficient and productive, life slips away and they spend their lives working for money, materialism, and technology. What is the point? Time slips by and you have wasted your life in a modern society without a soul or conscience. Are people that dumb that they don't realize their life would be more wholesome with less stuff and more human relationships?

Movies nowadays just show violence and sex. Cars fill the streets and everyone is in a hurry. 99% of people spend their lives working themselves to death just to survive. We pollute everything and destroy nature. Cities are horrible to live in due to smog and sound pollution. We are alienated from each other and we become selfish brats. We are so overpopulated people live in shanty towns and even the rich eat genetically modified food that gives them cancer. Democracy is a veil to fool people (just look at the 'great' USA).We are brainwashed by the media and we have fools govern us.

Why modernize?
What for?

Answer 1

You are obviously passionate about this so do something about it. We are all here to remember what we love and pursue that passion. Just because others are sleepwalking their way through life causing havoc, doesn't mean you can't make a difference.

There are people who see what you do and are determined to turn this situation around. Why not you? Sitting around being depressed about it is a bore anyway.

Answer 2

wow i like your way of thought, basically what you said is true. After my cancer diagnosis I "snapped out of this chaos" I currently own a sleeping bag and tent and am doing just fine. I am not an unknowledgeable person either(i have completed my commecial pilot liscence by age 22) You should whatch the move "into the wild" It is kind of about what you explain. It gives a strong message about "happiness can only truly be experienced when shared" this is true yet it seems like to expereince it we have to self-destruct in the chaos. I personally have found MUCH ease in the canadian north it is something very cleansing and peaceful where you can ease and open your mind and get out of this rat race that you talk about. Best of luck my friend, i think i know how you feel, we're all in this together.

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Answer 3

Ancient Europeans wrote about Ages of Man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man

There are also many other references to various
types of world ages or Ages of Man in Hopi
(worlds), Mayan (suns) and other cultures of
antiquity. Giorgio de Santillana, the former
professsor of the history of science, mentions
approximately thirty ancient cultures that
believed in the concept of a series of ages and
the rise and fall of history, with alternating
Dark and Golden Ages.

More details of these Ages are available in the
Yuga concept of the Hindus. The present age
is known as Kali Yuga (age of darkness).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Yuga

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/iml/iml11.htm
http://www.crystallotus.com/Lemuria/04bbTheAges.htm
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/AgesOfWorld.html

What you have written is due to the effect of Age of
Darkness. But there is hope for us.

"From 2010, winds of spiritualism will blow across the
entire world, awakening more and more people in its wake. Where limits
of (modern) science end, spiritualism begins. .... Along with scientific
progress, intellectuals will start recognizing the importance of
spiritualism. .... From 2050, a new era will begin...."

[Swami Dattavadhut, Prophecies 1998 to 2100, Vanita Books, Mumbai, 1997, pp. 33-42.]


http://kaalchakra0.tripod.com/id66.html

Answer 4

If we could merely stop competing. existence does no longer must be crammed with rigidity and frustration, we made it up. We willingly bypass alongside with this creative requirement of all those issues we ought to continuously do and ought to have, we enable our selves be brainwashed by making use of hundreds of commercials daily, that compels us to purchase greater and sense this deficiency that we cant extremely place. We completely forgot that nature has its very own set of regulations, it attracts us to stability and something opposing it is going to prove as undesirable. That stability is approximately co-operation and sharing, fairly than opposition and exploitation, so we are very plenty in opposition in the present day. the solid information is that there is plenty we are able to do and the understanding would be achieved, as long as we bear in recommendations that we are mutually in this deliver with a hollow in it!

Answer 5

yes thats very true. modernization really cant be avoided though, even though i agree that at some point ppl should be in the moment and not have so many devices to get from point A to point B in a matter of minutes.

Answer 6

I hear u we spend our whole lives making $ to die in dept u should listen to the song 'does anybody really know what time it is' by Chicago it is one of my favorite songs