[dorlomin]

What life we have led. Few among us has felt pain more than briefly, tooth ache is easily fixed with a couple of pills then a trip to the dentist. We never fear for water borne diseases as ours is piped to our houses cleaned and made safe and when it takes our fancy it is heated for our convenience. We have few fears of airborne diseases as we have all but conquered them. Our foods are brought to our table from fields thousands of miles away in the space of days or hours. Spices that once took sailors two years journey round the world and cost more than gold now sit at the back of the cupboard unloved as we have found ever more exotic foods.

The great plays and works of literature are at our finger tips. Even VHS is no longer convenient enough for us, we can often youtube and google to get the works of Mozart or Shakespeare. The greatest actors of our age are at our beck and call in a way that Popes and dukes could not dream off.

All but the meekest amount us can go and travel to warm beaches and sunshine to get away from our winters. Winters that are kept out with double glazing and central heating.

Our emissaries have sifted the sands of mars, tasted the electric crackle of Jupiter’s storms and gazed deep to the dawn of time though Hubble’s eyes.

As the medieval Europeans built great cathedrals, the Egyptians there pyramids and the Greeks there philosophies so we have gone into the depths of physics and mathematics and left monuments to our greatness to shine among the rotten heaps of our disgrace we will leave.

We may have squandered the riches of oil and gas on vanity and conceit but by god have we lived lives too envy.

[goodbye_bluesky]

As a kid my parents moved us all to idaho to live up in the hills. It was probably the lowest possible form of life in the Western world (not counting homelessness) and while it was very low living compared to normal peoples living standards There was never really a danger as the option to return to society quickly and with the help never that far away.

Now onto the homless that have it worse than I ever had. Those that have the mental capacity can survive and live a much greater life than say those in the slums for third world countries or working in a third world factory.

If I had to give up everything and person I know and be dropped off somewhere in the world I'd still pick the U.S or Canada

[TWilliam]

Too true dorlomin. Even some of the poorest in this country have it far better than the 'well-off' of past eras. People have no clue how much we take for granted...

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[PenultimateManStanding]

I aplawd the sentments but abhore the speling. Shud I care? I don't noe. Maybee I dont anemore. Whut difference do it make? tsits all going down anyway. It stil says kinds and emprors down here in the posts.

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') aplawd the sentments but abhore the speling. Shud I care? I don't noe. Maybee I dont anemore. Whut difference do it make? tsits all going down anyway. It stil says kinds and emprors down here in the posts.

[vision-master]

Being 55 has it's advantages.

I'd love to change to world

[bodigami]

knowing that the price to pay for that luxories is a mass extinction of species, makes it not worth it.