Hi Erin, all
Here are my ruminations on your questions...
> Why do older generations always look down on younger
> generations as "losing morals" or "morally bankrupt"
Well, more or less we all fight against sq. How? Funny enough, by creating
newer sq, possibly a better kind of sq. And then, the latest kid comes and
tells that the world the elders are offering is not satisfying and should be
improved.... it can be very discomforting, considering that at any time
there are lots of bad guys among rare brujos ....
> and at the same time argue that world is getting better, there is
> progress, etc. (unless moral bankruptcy is progress but I guess
> that would be blasphemy in MoQ)
in general, I listen to a lot of people saying that the world has been
getting better up to now, but that they feel also negative about future.
> 1) At what point in history was "morals" at a peak?
tomorrow! :-)
.... but, if I have to look at the past:
«The day the first protozoans decided to get together to form a metazoan
society. Or the day the first freak fish, or whatever it was, decided to
leave the water. Or, within historical time, the day Socrates died to
establish the independence of intellectual patterns from their social
origins. Or the day Descartes decided to start with himself as an ultimate
source of reality».
(Lila, ch 22)
> 2) as times change how do you measure the change as a good or bad
> (or can you only tell in hindsight)
Well, in hindsight it's too easy. In the present, you can't "measure"
goodness, fortunately you already know what quality is... don't you?
> I read recently somewhere (sorry I can't remember where and can't remember
> exactly what the article was about) that it wasn't whether it
> was good or bad but modern or outdated.
tell me, how would your journalist define the Holocaust: modern or outdated?
> Now I don't agree that all change is good BUT do wonder whether
> **my*** judgement is as good as the *universe**.
> That is if times are heading in a direction is it more
> moral to try to change the direction if you don't like it or
> try and be open to see the good in it.
Listen to it. Feel it. Experience it. Then, if you *really* don't like it,
at least you tried to see the good in it. And if you could not find anything
good, well, change the direction.
> Basically I wondering about this DQ = change.
DQ is not simply change. DQ is what's better.
Ciao,
Marco
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