Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Just a passing thought


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Originally Posted by Kcnorwood
Are we better off then we were some 200 years ago?
Though it would seem obvious that the world has changed, has it really? The epic literature called Mahabharath, written over 5,000 years ago, describes society as it was then. Even then there were rich and poor, wise and foolish, pious and irreverent, healthy and sick, the rulers and the ruled, politics, intrigues, theft, war, love and hate and technology too (nothing less than traveling to other planets!). Reading it you would feel that nothing has changed. Even if we insist that we have made awesome leaps in the field of technology, one to one, human to human, we might not have changed at all since Adam and Eve. And yet how can we say we have not progressed? Truly a paradox.

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