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RE: Sociology...'serving society.' - 1/3/2013 6:44:47 AM

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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida

MrRodgers I hear what you're saying, but again - glass half empty or half full? Many diseases ARE being researched and cures ARE being found. Just not in the time frame we want.

Or at all if the treatment hasn't been patented and won't make anybody a profit.

I can see your point, but I can't say that Mr Rodgers is wrong, either, and really, something this important being limited over some bastard chemist wanting a patent is obscene. Laetril isn't the only example of this, sadly: it's just the one that gets the most publicity because it doesn't work, and so emphasising that makes certain callous scum look less like a bunch of shits than emphasing that there's (say) unpatented medicinal compounds that are as effective at slowing the development of AIDS as AZT but which nobody can make a sufficient profit from for them to bother manufacturing and selling the things.

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RE: Sociology...'serving society.' - 1/3/2013 6:30:50 PM

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Inspired by the OP...'Are we on borrowed time.' YES

One indication of the usefulness and function of a civil society, is the tranquility in which it lives resulting in a confidence in its future that has us continue to live somewhat safely, learn, advance as a society and produce.

Where our modern civil society takes us then is our first, and most telling indicator. I am not hopeful and nor should you be.

Did you see it ? 'You Promised me Mars colonies and you gave me FaceBook.' Buzz Aldren (astronaut) Haven't read it...yet but the title is the message.

Kinda says it all doesn't it, or at the very least...a great deal. Instead of man's ascendancy resulting in cures for disease, feeding ALL of the hungry for example, we get toys for-profit...the Internet and iPhones...media, entertainment...hedonism.

Do you agree with the premise ? That's the question. What say you ?

I say no. The profit motive being the only thing moving man, remaining society will just have to get along...survive despite it.

Man has advanced not sociologically but rather financially and militarily. We can vaporize your country, we can zap our 'enemies' from the sky, (while at lunch) we can view media around the world.....

...but we can't cure cancer, feed the hungry and mitigate mans' trashing of the planet.

There's no profit. One could conclude that yes, we are ALL on borrowed time or at least a few generations away from a slow burning low-level world war. War for resources and the power and control necessary.