25 Reasons Why I Think “Modern” Times Are The Stone Age

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Post by markpeterdavis » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 8:38 PM UTC

25 Reasons Why I Think “Modern” Times Are The Stone Age
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Post by ebaysucks » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 8:59 PM UTC

The two main reasons we are still a barbaric society: 1. We still pay taxes. 2. We still die.

One day, hopefully within my life time, we'll reach escape velocity and move beyond a jungle mentality.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 9:10 PM UTC

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Post by asdfj843lkdjs » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 9:11 PM UTC

As amazing as many of this we have are, we should never lose the hunger to solve any of the 25 listed reasons. They are real and they are serious.

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Post by asdfj843lkdjs » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 9:13 PM UTC

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Louis CK is hilarious, but this guy is not an asshole.

Dying, aging, being sick, drinking, eating and breathing pollution are not trivial problems. We ought to demand solutions for them.

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Post by joh6nn » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 9:15 PM UTC

asdfj843lkdjs wrote: post #5

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Louis CK is hilarious, but this guy is not an asshole. Dying, aging, being sick, drinking, eating and breathing pollution are not trivial problems. We ought to demand solutions for them.

dying is a problem? you need to read more sci-fi.

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Post by sabat » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 9:15 PM UTC

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Six hours in the air as opposed to faster-than-sound flight or instant teleportation or virtual reality?

Yes, we're still in the stone age.

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Post by sabat » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

ebaysucks wrote: post #2

The two main reasons we are still a barbaric society: 1. We still pay taxes. 2. We still die. One day, hopefully within my life time, we'll reach escape velocity and move beyond a jungle mentality.

If the "solution" to paying taxes is privatizing everything, I'm all for living in the stone age.

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Post by praptak » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

I wonder if we are actually happier than people x years ago. And of course whether it is at all possible to determine that.

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Post by Florin_Andrei » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 9:24 PM UTC

ebaysucks wrote: post #2

The two main reasons we are still a barbaric society: 1. We still pay taxes. 2. We still die. One day, hopefully within my life time, we'll reach escape velocity and move beyond a jungle mentality.

You could always go back to the jungle. No taxes there at all.