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The2ndWheel

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4. Within every solution is the seed of the next problem

Reply to Skidmore (Original post)

Sat Jan 10, 2015, 10:29 AM

Jan 2015

Society is always fighting against entropy. It takes a lot of energy to keep everything together. Sometimes you wonder how we're able to do it at all on such a scale. Of course what we do in order to keep it all together on such a scale is also part of our environmental issues, which can push people into conflict by itself, let alone with the added political and cultural reasons.

Diversity can also create that sort of conflict. Like with everything, there's an upside to diversity, and also a downside.

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I'm so sick of this awful feeling that we are being forced into a world conflagration [View all] Skidmore Jan 2015 OP

fundamentalism at its core is KT2000 Jan 2015 #1

So many of yhem have made it into Skidmore Jan 2015 #3

Amen, Skidmore ReRe Jan 2015 #2

Within every solution is the seed of the next problem The2ndWheel Jan 2015 #4

Well, just this morning someone on DU was petitioning to have public displays of faith Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #5

They also got rather thoroughly mocked for that Fumesucker Jan 2015 #6

I'll feel better once Charlie Hebdo does a cover about it. Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #7

We have major wars when society reaches a point where discontent would turn slaves on their masters Taitertots Jan 2015 #8