Thread: In what ways is society advancing and in what ways is it regressing?

Well I mean as far as racism goes, we as Americans have come SOO far. Not to get into it too much but its definitely a +.

Youth in general is getting lazier and with Myspace they tend to loose site quickly of what is really important.

I could also go on about the "pussification" of america. Where youth sports no longer keep score and everything has to be so PC. We are on the track of having albino kids that cant eat anything because of allergies. So many kids here are allergic to peanuts and such, but in africa we send that peanut butter paste over and they can all eat it! Plus everyone claims they are getting the short end of the stick. SACK UP and deal with it, dont look to the government for help when you F**& up.

As far as advancing.... socially.... Well as of now I cant think of anything except maybe the racism, but if I do I will edit!

Are we, as a society really getting better?
As a whole we are advancing. Science has gotten so much better. We are learning alot. Our children are smarter then we were at their age. Technology is making life easier (but it can be making our lifes more complicated. But that's not being positive right now.)


Are our behaviors evolving in any way other than scientific knowledge?
This answer, to me, is neither yes or no. In someways we are developing behaviors that wouldn't humans wouldn't have had say 500+ years back. Such as raising a child with a mental disablity. But now we take care of them even though we know that they will not help society. But we love them reguardless.
Then on the other hand we have people who do the opposite. Instead of helping anyone they just get rid of them and don't think about it. Not because they have a handicap. But because they are unwilling to work with a person to develop.


How about the way we treat each other?
I don't think we've changed at all on how we treat each other. Humans dislike something different. It's in our nature. If we don't like someone we might not show it. But we are with our actions regardless.


How about the sexualization of our young people?
I don't like it at all. I think it's not right to have our children raised to think of sex as nothing. But with MTV and whatever else is out there. Our kids get bombarded with sex from the get go. There is no reason for it.
Granted, sex sells. But it is suppose to be aimed at adults. But then it comes down to the parents. If a parent doesn't regulate what a child watches. Then that kid will watch whatever the TV is on. And the tv will just show anything to anyone.


How about our treatment of the poor or otherwise disadvantaged?
Define poor? America does not have very many "poor" people. We have a lot of lazy people who don't want to work for money and live below the poverty level to get money. But of the few people who are poor and can't get work because of phsycial or mental problems. They get what they need. But it's the low lives who are lazy that give the system for helping those unfortunate people a bad name.
Now on the world. I can't really say. I just have my own self-centered American view on it. "It's not our fault that their ancesters moved to a desert or open piece of land with no river within miles." But that's how I really see it. If you really want to change your way of life. Move. Don't go saying it's easier said then done. It's not. How do you think we got to where we are today? We moved around. All over the world. First by foot. Then my animal. Then by boat.

A philosopher once complained that the only ethical advances that human cultures make are to account for new technologies, whereas the core remains the same. Here's the rub, I think it was Plato in Phaedrus that made that complaint, in 360 BC!

I pretty much agree with that point. We do make new rules, but to only account for new 'tricks.' At the core, we're still dragging our knuckles on the ground.

Do you know who else promoted premarital sex and adolescent sexual behavior? Socialist.

If you look at the Greco-Roman era of history, sex was celebrated.

Yes celebrated by MEN. The Greco-Roman era presents a theory of the subordination of women. With women undervalued and used as pawns in the exchanges between men. At that time in history prostitution ran rampant in the streets.

I am talking about loose morals of the Romans, evidenced by the historians, but especially by the poets, about Roman men bringing back to Rome standards in prostitution from the East, and about normal Roman matrons acting like prostitutes. So your representation is off base, if differing MORALS is what you are trying to portray in your statement.

Lets not take this topic to a Religious bout like the other threads have and not flame anyone.