Our society is based on the latter not the former which is going to require radical change, soon. If you can't survive without AC for a month, how will you survive Thunderdome times?
ELAINE: Why is it so hot in here? How can they sleep like this? JERRY: It's only for three days. Today's over and we have tommorow. We leave on Sunday. It's one day, really. ELAINE: Oh man. What is with this bar? It's right in my back. It's killing me. JERRY: Oh you wanna switch? I'm sleeping on a love seat. I've got my feet up in the air like I'm in a space capsule. ELAINE: I am never gonna fall asleep. JERRY: Oh, don't say that. You'll jinx me. ELAINE: How can they not put the air conditioning on? JERRY: They're nuts with temperature
Looking at the surviving without A/C posts and replies got me to thinking about what my mother and grandmother were talking about yesterday after dinner. They were talking about how the new generations have basically become p*$$y-like. What brought on this conversation was my cousin just had a baby and went through it with an epidural to relieve the pain. They stated how they never had such benefits and it led to a conversation about many of the perks we all have that they didn't.
You think thumderdome times are coming for our society? I think this is a lull, and a re-org but not a crack in the foundation. DD
Yea.... 4 miles through the driven snow to get milk only they had no buckets so they had to carry the milk in their hands and all that. Whatever, every generation exploits their own perks and lambastes the next generation for having it better or easy. For proof, look no further than the school teacher sex threads. You can already hear Gen X saying "The internet is making kids dumb, they have no attention span" about Gen Y.
yeah, nothing like the risk of death during child birth. I agree with the basic premise, but quality of life is a lot better. I posted in another thread that life expectancy has increased by about 35 years since 1900.
Do epidural treatments assist in saving lives during childbirth? To my knowledge they do little more than relieve pain. Other medical advancements have assisted in humans living long although I think that actually may be hurting the planet itself. Quality of life has gotten better I agree and so did they as they stated we have it much better now than before, including themselves with the 'we' statement.
They didn't use that snow thing, they were pointing out actual happenings during their coming up. Personally, I think they're right as I don't see how the next generation is going to gain anything major that is going to make their lives any easier/better, in fact theirs may be worse.
Actually . . .alot of the SOCIAL advancements more than the technological advancements are to blame IMO Rocket River
Is that the thing that some people are afraid will destroy the Earth once it it turned on in a few months?
Life as we know it might be over, but humans are scrappers. There's people living in Siberia for crying out loud... 10k years is a small drop in the geological bucket. Most traces of civilization (pollution, buildings, monuments) would probably vanish in 300-500k years. After 2 million, around the same time it took humans to evolve, the earth likely would've reboot itself by then. All an observer would have are lucky fossils, whatever junk still in orbit and toys on the moon. At this point, it's tempting to wonder if there has been "intelligent" life on this planet before and whether there'd be some after we're long gone.
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