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Yes, on a few conditions: No long lasting pain or diseases, no poverty and unrestricted freedom.

I'll take the fountain of youth instead. (As long as we are imagining.)

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 4:21 pm

Greta wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:20 am Not in an overpopulated world and this current overcrowded world is rapidly becoming very different to the world into which I was born and have been adapted.

Probably like every generation before I find societies increasingly becoming more crowded, fussy, anal, controlling and argumentative. Overpopulation and overcrowding of humans is disorienting, agitating and frustrating and is the cause of the vast majority of the world's problems - the elephant in the room that almost no politicians or business leaders will even acknowledge as existing about let alone addressing the issues.

I'd like to make further comment about Flipboard in connection with this. They publish hundreds of stories daily. Never seen any stories about overpopulation, no concerns from politicians nor scientists. With global warming, some stories from time to time (I go back over two years with Flipboard) and the stories are about the loss of ice in Antarctica or Greenland. But do you know what's missing in this equation? No stories about rising sea levels. None. I'd also like to ask you where your greater concern is: with overpopulation or with global warming?

Put it this way, Phil. What of today's big problems would be present if the world's population was one billion? Almost none of them. It's hardly far fetched to think we may be overpopulated as we drive extinctions, change the climate, remove 90% of the world's forest, create desert lands at an unprecedented rate and drive each other crazy with traffic jams, queues, pollution, noise, and property prices driven by insatiable demand ... etc etc etc

I'm not complaining, just observing. Things must change but at the same time we tend to be most adapted to the times of our youth during rapid early development. Thus, new times would not suit us. I've thought about how amazing it would be to see how people live in, say, 500 years but I suspect that I'd feel about as comfortable as an illiterate labourer introduced to high society.

I think of the feeling of being a simple person amongst the refined and gentrified as "be careful with the expensive white sofa". You have to tiptoe around, watch your Ps and Qs etc. I won't call it "political correctness" because the term has been politicised into meaninglessness.

Still I, like many of my generation, like an environment with a bit more grime than is tolerated today, where people can put their feet up, fart, drop crumbs, put coffee rings on the table, with pets allowed indoors etc etc - more easygoing. If I had to live in a world where I was consistently straitjacketed and constricted, then I'd rather my spot on the world be filled with someone who can enjoy it.

Philosophy Explorer wrote:...
I'm subscribed to Flipboard which covers a wide variety of stories. ...

That explains a lot.

Arising_uk wrote: ↑Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:46 am

Philosophy Explorer wrote:...
I'm subscribed to Flipboard which covers a wide variety of stories. ...

That explains a lot.

I wasn't explaining to you. Greta understands me.

PhilX