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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA question that should be asked more often: "And, then what?"
Advice that should be taken more often: "Get over it."
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A question that should be asked more often: "And, then what?" (Original Post)
Atticus
Apr 2019
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)1. If everyone who voted first asked but then what,
it would be both a magnificent evolution and enabler of great revolutionary advances.
Imagine a nation where every ten steps forward werent accompanied by nine abysmally tragic and stupid missteps back...
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)2. I will HAVE to use my imagination...
since this nation seems unable to learn from our own history and we always end up going back and repeating our errors, wasting time, money and energy. I am a realist.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. Me too. I'm a child of reason and science, not fantasy.
Still, surely realistic idealists can do more in creating processes that lead to the results needed? With the advent of IT, the right has had tremendous success in training populations to react emotionally, bypassing reasoning altogether. They're working with huge advantages of primitive emotions, especially fear, over the work of reason of course, but never forgetting that, in spite of those who forever drag us backward, mankind has always advanced.
Btw, we believed the educational and liberalizing effects of the internet would be revolutionary, before evil scoundrels developed techniques to use it for corruption and mental enslavement. But perhaps the big effects of having truth, information and the reasoning of fine minds immediately available to billions are just lagging behind those of lies, as they've always done..?
(Rising sun picture here.)