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Pow Galactic Ambassador

Joined: 27 Sep 2014 Posts: 3739 Location: New York
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 11:56 pm Post subject: Loved this statement. |
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This is statement by successful businessman & former presidential candidate Andrew Yang while guesting on Bill Maher's HBO TV series Real Time, who was quoting a friend of his. It jumped out at me as being an excellent description of humanities current status.
"We have primordial brains, medieval institutions and Godlike technology." |
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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador

Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 3001 Location: Buffalo, NY
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2023 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Boy, this is so true!
For all our technological advancement we are still governed by the reptile part of our cerebellum! Our racism is the same as the territoriality of the most primitive primate!
We DO have the ability to rise above it, but it can just take one despotic madman, using the weapons of destruction we have at our fingertips to send us back to the stone age.
Too many of those with the ability to set it in motion exist today! _________________ There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
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Morbius Astral Engineer

Joined: 25 Oct 2014 Posts: 205
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2023 5:25 am Post subject: |
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Sums it up pretty well.  |
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WadeVC Astral Engineer

Joined: 06 Aug 2024 Posts: 255 Location: Pioneer, CA
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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Gord Green wrote: | We DO have the ability to rise above it, but it can just take one despotic madman, using the weapons of destruction we have at our fingertips to send us back to the stone age. |
This is, unfortunately, too terrifyingly true. _________________ "You look like a pooped out pinwheel."
-Robot Monster |
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