Originally Posted by Ted Cunterblast:
“You see the thing people dont realise about this sort of stuff is that it is mainly fuelled by constant media scare stories, stories of crime, corruption, poverty, global warming, possible disasters, basically doom and gloom on a global scale.
But heres the thing - most stories are actually warnings about the potential of what might happen if we do nothing to prevent it, and stories are reported in such a fashion that we apprently won't do anything about it either...therefore it allows the 'world will end' doomsayers to have a field day.
Y2K was a good example of this...in the early 90's there were stories about planes falling out of the sky, of us being relegated to the stone age because all electrical devices would fail. But that was only if we did nothing about it. But we did...companies employed software engineers to start adjusting all systems, appliances, computers etc for years running up to Y2K.
And...nothing happened.
I always like to remember the Y2K scenario in those terms. Because in reality things usually do get done, people do work to prevent the worst happening. And yes things can often be bad, but never quite the 'end of civilisation as we know it' bad that people believe will happen.”
You make some good points I remember the build up to the year 2000 and all the hype about planes falling out of the sky because their onboard computer system couldnt recognise the digit 2000' or something along those lines, and in reality nothing happened.
Some religious people claim too that there are more earhquakes now, when in reality we have a lot more seismograph meters around the world,for example at one stage there was only 35 meters, now we have 1000 or so, so we are recording more, and even small earthquakes that are recorded count towards the data recorded. So it looks like we have more earthquakes. Religious people take earthquakes and wars as signs of the end times of course
I do however sometimes wonder where the planet is heading ? This is also the first generation of young people that are exposed to this level of technology, computers etc, overwhelmed abd bombarded by screens of one sort or another. And im not always sure how much of a good thing that is, especially some of the stuff thats on the internet that young developing brains can be exposed to that can mould their thinking, or give them an unrealistic view of people and relationships.
The world still sees the same old problems, murderous insane wars, a massive highly profitable global arms trade, big inequality and so on. And a growing population which may bring problems to the planet ?