Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
lil · 2221 days ago · link · · parent · post: New College Course on Why Democracies Collapse - Timely, or Too Late
:-( Sadly, yes. it's too late to ask protection of God.
Still we've somehow managed to get this far, so humanity must have learned something . . . not enough, mind you.
FirebrandRoaring · 2221 days ago · link ·
If you think of humanity as a single person, we're firmly over six years old by now. We've learned that there are rules that Mommy and Daddy don't want us to break, and we kind of abide by them. Wars are fewer and less devastating. Child mortality is, from historic perspective, negligible. We've even managed to make up our own code of conduct. When there's so much to learn about the world, in its infinite intricacy, we should be forgiven for our many mistakes. History shows that we're doing something right indeed.