i asked my dad if the world has always been under such distress and chaos as it is today. i prefaced this inquisition with, "i know i may be naive, but doesn't it seem like there are a lot of wars, natural disasters, people starving, horrible things occurring in the world right now?" he agreed, because who could not considering our world. but he brought up our access to constant information and communication between countries. we have the ability to know what is happening right now in most countries; our information doesn't have a delay. we have access to individuals and their stories, not just policy's and power player's delayed and contrived stories.
ultimately dad said: yeah, give or take, our earth has always been under turmoil and infested with disaster. there are other aspects of our society that are different now then they were a couple hundred years ago though, for example: we build near the sea. for the most part when survival was our goal and resources were limited, we did not build near the sea for the beauty of it. we build fishing villages for fishing maybe, but not high rises, million dollar mansions and cities pressed against the ocean. we have changed our locations and in some instances, put ourselves in harm's way. this could be said for many aspects of our current western world. we have come to rely on nuclear power and oil, for example, which have created a new playing field for the world's powers. we now have different priorities and these are dangerous. we are no longer simply living to feed ourselves, we have branched out and created a world based on needs and wants, much more than our basics.
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