History reveals that challenges to peace and tranquility are constantly nipping at humanity's heels; somehow, nevertheless, we seem to eek out improvements in the World, sometimes with significant human cost. Recent developments in the World seem to indicate that steps backward are being taken, and we are being tested again. I lived through the 1960s, and now I see improvements made back then slipping away. I voiced my opinion numerous times on Social Media Platforms, but I feel like a mouse screaming out a warning in a vast wilderness of ears that will not hear. I have no political power or a significant voice bestowed on me by notoriety or celebrity, so there isn't much I can do to have a positive impact.
If I can stir you, my blog readers know this as King Solomon wrote centuries ago, "There is nothing new under the sun."
Plato and Aristotle on the Family and the Polis
John Hittinger
The University of St. Thomas, Houston
The question of the family is at the heart of many important political issues
EMPATHY LOST IS MORE THAN PARADISE LOST. What value is it to explore the Moon or Colonize Mars without empathy? Are we presently here to serve and please the few and ignore the many?
If we are losing empathy, it must be that it is being eroded within the family unit. Perhaps we are at a point where humans no longer need the family unit, and dysfunction will replace well-balanced caring humans with cold calculating entities. Note, I am not saying this because we are threatened by AI (Artificial Intelligence). I am warning humanity, it seems we will find a way to self-destruct, and it may not be in some Science Fiction Novel set in the distant future.
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