In a world where you are increasingly disappointed by the cultural level, moral, of aspirations, but also of innovation, here are also happy news. Recent, in Israel, increasing longevity has become a political issue, and in Russia the Longevity Party is about to be established. Sure, these initiatives should reach global.
I hope to be part of this beautiful fight (and especially part of her success on all levels), especially since the latest results make me hopeful. But the idea of solidarity, other people's support, it's delicious even when you're used to thinking alone... Maybe especially then.
On the other hand, considering all the problems of the world we live in, many times it seems immoral that I deal with these "luxury" things, when hunger and mundane diseases wreak havoc. People are killing themselves in Syria, but I don't react like I used to either. It's not about accepting crimes, but from the lack of solutions. When I see what happened to the Arab Spring... The horrible dictatorship in Syria is at least secular. And democracy and human rights are something created by, and for, a certain social class, economic, mentor. Actually something that is the result of them. You must know how to use the gifts of democracy, to play with them. I don't mean to say that not all people deserve freedom, but it is more difficult to implement than it seems at first glance.
But the biggest problem is the dissolution of the West, of Western culture. Am citit recent o futurology map by Jaques Attali, "Brief History of the Future". There were some predictions that the Europe of the future would resemble the Africa of today. Reading some articles from the 19th century about Romania from that time, I was struck by how closely it resembled… the European Union today. Bottomless shapes, huge bureaucracy, corruption given by people who only want to hold office. Technical progress is very deceptive. In reality, INNOVATION, that fewer are produced than in 1873, the maximum of inventiveness, they don't appear anymore not because fools are born now and smart ones then, but because of social and economic conditions. Interestingly, there were some people back then who believed that the problem of aging would be solved soon. George Sand was one of these people, and she was not the only one.
To return to my sheep, now I am no longer afraid of the many technical problems that arise when you want to implement something new, appeared more on paper, but of the social and economic possibility to bring it to a happy end.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2011/1028/1224306357282.html
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/konovalenko201207261
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/stambler201207171
