Ephesians 6:5

[*michaelsean*]

(06-24-2020, 05:17 AM)samhain Wrote: I feel like we are becoming even more brutal, just in less straightforward fashion.  Physical combat of the face-to-face nature is rarer even in war.  We have planes, ICBMs and drones to do the work for us.  Not to say that infantry-style warfare isn't a thing, it's just not the only thing or even the main option.  

To my point, I'm really not even getting at physical violence when I make the assertion.  People flat-out don't give a rip about each other anymore.  They don't care what happens to a person half a world away in a Chinese concentration camp and they don't care about the dude three blocks away who's overdosing on fentanyl.  They don't have time to.  They are ground down to a pulp chasing stuff they don't need.  There is zero sense of desire for a common good anymore as I see it.  I feel like most people would be just fine with whatever fate befell any given stranger, so long as they didn't have to see it and it didn't effect them directly.  

Modern economics are a meat grinder with us as the meat.  We care little for the rest of the world getting turned to chum, so long as we're still getting by in the end.  

I hope like hell that if there's a god, he's nothing like any of us.  If he is, we're in deep shit.  

That's not new by any means.  The vast majority of our history is mere survival.  The value of life outside of ones own group 1000 years ago was pretty close to zero.