“As I see it, humanity’s faults are fairly consistent as the centuries go by.”
Well, the faults may be the same, but as we “succeed” at dominating the bejeezus out of the planet, and concentrating more and more power in ever-growing organizations that are trying to constantly maximize their imaginary wealth, and as we grow in population and technology and so on, we have been screwing up the planet more and more. First agriculture, then industrialization were major shifts in the degrees and methods of our domination and removal of natural ecosystems. Now overpopulation and the lack of regard of too many of our decision-making processes is squeezing out what’s left of the ecosystems that support our own life (and the existence of many other species and environments).
That’s one of main reasons why I’m down on us. We’re killing off other species and ruining our planet and may be going to kill ourselves off, because we aren’t growing out of our stupid “wealth” competitions and other outdated ideas that are leading us to destroy our own planet for fucktarded reasons.
“empathy is recognized As a uniquely human trait”
– by backwards humans without enough empathy for non-humans
“the governed are recognized as more sovereign than the government”
– where? Iceland, sometimes? Humanist conversations?
– I recognize that this should be the case, but I also recognize that it’s used as an idea to placate people whilst corporations corrupt our governments and news media so they can continue and increase corporate rights and destruction of the planet.
“slavery is recognized as immoral”
– yet still practiced, and not effectively cracked down on
– wage slavery is denied
“women are recognized as partners in politics and production”
how impressive. That must’ve been quite a feat. We still have to catch up with pre-Roman-Empire Europe… Meanwhile in the USA we have to fight off all sorts of backward misogynistic policies and crap. I hear some of our leaders in Texas think we need laws to make women carry dead fetuses to term and hold the fetuses religious services. Never mind India or Pakistan or the various countries from which Fluther and other QA sites fairly regularly gets questions from young women almost too terrified to be discovered asking how they can do basic things like get an education or have a boyfriend or get out of forced marriages or not get stoned to death…
“Like the stock market, the human virtue seems to consistently
trend upwards.”
– Great analogy. Refer to the imaginary game that is driving planetary destruction and exploitation of everything for the sake of increasing the wealth of the already-wealthy forever, as a metaphor for our upward climb.