Paq

So i've been thinking.

During my studies of history, there have been certain 'times' that seem to signal a new change in humanity. a Crossroads, if you will. just in america's short history, i'm talking about things like SC's secession, marking a pivotal change in how our country conducts itself. I'm talking about th industrial revolution and the relocation of masses of people from farmlands to urban areas. I'm talking about the advent of cars and ways of transporting people across vast distances, connecting the people of this country in ways that were impossible before.

Like when Truman dropped a bomb to set off the nuclear age to the cuban missile crisis that marked a turning point in how the nuclear arms race was going to go. Gorbie tearing down a wall to end an era and begin a new one. Even the happier times of space flight, the advent of computers, home computers and the internet. All of these things sparked a monumental change in how america, and indeed, the world, conducts itself.

So, with everything happening in our country, the gas/oil conditions, the war on terrorism, the hurricanes, the natural disasters, tsunamis, floods, health care, social security, the national debt, nuclear proliferation, global warming, government corruption, the rapid divide between the haves, superhaves and have nots, the huge disagreements between the political parties and the supporters of the parties, the fact that seemingly nothing gets done anymore in politics bc of the constant bitching from one side about the other, the huge divide that is growing in this country's ideology , and just everything that is changing, do you think we are at a crossroads? I just feel that the world cannot continue along the path that it currently is heading. Something has to change and drastically. I just feel that 20 yrs from now will look nothing as we expect. there will be monumental shifts in the way we conduct ourselves and this time will be seen by future generations as a time that they will strive forever to avoid becoming. i just cannot see this country continuing indefinitely on the path it is headed at the present, and that disturbs me deeply.

Does anyone else feel this way or see this as a turning point in our history? Maybe i've just been engulfed in different timeperiods enough that i start seeing trends now that resemble trends of earlier times, i dunno, but i just feel that the world is about to experience a fundamental change.

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Chris