Is it possible everything will be alright?

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Poll question: Is it possible everything will be alright?

Possible the wars and unemployment and crime and gangs and oil spills and toxic air and political and religious hatred and conflict and materialistic subservience and the downward drag on societal evolution will work out ok?

Poll result (32 votes)
Yep, things work themselves out.	(5 votes, 16%)	Vote
If the right ideas can be pummled into people's heads, sure.	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
Live your own life, let things outside of that go.	(4 votes, 13%)	Vote
No, humankind cannot exist within current parameters.	(20 votes, 63%)	Vote
All else.	(3 votes, 9%)	Vote

[Richardo]

1. Everything has never been alright.

Somewhere, for someone, everything is horrible. T'was ever thus.

Not to say that that should stop people from trying to make everything better.

[AsahinaKimi]

2. I think it depends

What part of the planet you live and when you lived. I for one, am glad not to be presently living in North Korea, Nor lived in San Francisco after December 7th in 1941, nor lived in Hiroshima in 1945..

[wickerwoman]

3. Fix the little things you can fix and let the rest go.

Try not to be an asshole. Hope we reach a critical mass of non-assholes some day.

I think that's the best any of us can do.

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4. You know, wickerwoman, I wonder if things don't repeatedly reach critical mass

and then break into some huge skewed mess only to come back together again in some similar, but different, cluster only to be blown apart from within again.

To every up there is a down, to every high, a low. Equal and opposite forces pulling at each other - why should the laws of physics not apply to other contexts, other constructs - emotional, economical, societal?

I think this is the first time this year I've used the word constructs.

Killer name, btw, wickerwoman.

[Demeter]

5. The Pollster Really Ought to Lay Off the Koolaid

and all similar intoxicants.

Aside from the totally non-specific nature of the question (everything ends in death--is that all right with you? Doesn't matter, because it's inevitable!)--

the Second Law of Thermodynamics guarantees that things will NOT be "all right".

"The second law of thermodynamics is an expression of the universal principle of decay observable in nature. It is measured and expressed in terms of a property called entropy, stating that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium; and that the entropy change dS of a system undergoing any infinitesimal reversible process is given by δq / T, where δq is the heat supplied to the system and T is the absolute temperature of the system. In classical thermodynamics, the second law is a basic postulate applicable to any system involving measurable heat energy transfer, while in statistical thermodynamics, the second law is a consequence of the assumed randomness of molecular chaos, see fundamental postulate....

There are many versions of the second law, but they all have the same effect, which is to explain the phenomenon of irreversibility in nature."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynami...

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6. Well then, I stand corrected.

I guess.

[Javaman]

7. When we accept the concept of "everything will work out", all we are doing

is setting our self up for a new definition of what is acceptable. Moving the goal posts.

We have wetlands that will collapse later this year, is that "everything will work out"?

We have a fishing industry that is collapsing before our eyes, people will lose their homes, others will die due to no health insurance, small businesses will vanish from the landscape because of this oil volcano, is that "everything will work out"?

I'm tired of the level of acceptance this nation now deems as acceptable. We continue to lower the bar. Why is that? Is it because we have been so beaten down by the daily bullshit that passes for truth? Or is it have we all come to the subconscious understanding that the government is incapable of doing what needs to be done? Or is it the over arching theme that we the people no longer have a nation that respects its citizens enough to actually listen to their worries and concerns, but would rather take the easy way out by bowing down to their corporate masters?

I'm just fucking disgusted with this whole mess of what our country has been propagandized into since moron* was appointed.

[The2ndWheel]

8. Depends on your definition

As long as we exist in physical reality though, we'll always have problems that we will attempt to solve, creating the next problem to solve.