The harm in flawed Utopia

[Jasper]

I think hardship can make people bad or good.

The more I consider it, the more I think it is a mixture of hardship and community.  The community is what handles the strife, and the more that people in a community respect and honor one another, the more beneficial shared hardship would be.  My main problem is that in this day and age people don't need one another to go about their slice of life.  People don't have to rely on each other directly, so everyone is more antisocial, a trait that is counter to the nature of our species.  You don't have to be respectful to people to get what you need anymore, and that's my problem.  Time was, you'd learn your life skills from a variety of people in the community.  You'd pick up a little wisdom from everyone.  Now the only exposure to adulthood kids have are their largely clueless or overworked parents and thier underpaid teachers.  Everything else, they teach each other.  It's wrong, and people need to take more responsibility for how they raise thier children.

Stop blaming the ethics of the media.  Stop blaming schools.  Stop blaming MTV, crappy fast food, video games, ungodliness, rapists, and every other scapegoat we use to avoid acknowleging the fact that we raised our kids on cereal, McDonalds, television, and other kids' company and didn't even involve the community, even shunned it. 

We are social creatures.  Deny it, on the internet of all places.  We built this internet on the principles of open communication, reaching out to people, expression, and commerce of ideas.  We are desperately interactive and codependent to a fault.  We need each other.  One man can't take care of himself, not even ten people can live comfortably.  We're soft, hairless, ridiculous monkeys with bizzarre posture and huge foreheads; No natural weapons, few resiliences to speak of, little to no self-dependence, and we don't even specialize to a certain environment to optimize our effectivity like any other sensible life-form!

What the hell.  We're all out of our fucking minds.

[P3nT4gR4m]

One question - who the fuck, in their right mind, would want to be a part of a race like that?

[Ambassador KAOS]

Subjective:

There was a couple of pockets in the verbiage that made me groan but I liked the overall message as it places the responsibility on us, here and now, to make things better. 

I did a bit of a nihilistic/predeterministic rant that touched on this a week back, but don't read it because it's written like like piss. 

My point was that I identify with the idea.  Good Show.