Quote Originally Posted by Lord Winter View Post
Yet the enlightenment was an elitist movement. Yes, this was the ideal but you can't start preaching the end of the world just because we fail to live up to our utopias.
No we can't, but wouldn't it make sense to try and make it better?

Yes, it could be worse. So what? It could be better!

It's not the end of the world. Who said it was? So how about we work on it a bit?

You will also see in the cycle of history the following:

Generation A suffers from poverty, lack of education, or the like. So when they become old enough to do something about it, they will work extremely hard to pull themselves out of the problem.

After an incredible amount of effort (often social upheaval or even war), these people will establish themselves, making a life much better than what they had before.

Having reached this point by their own hard work, they have the skills and diligence to KEEP the things they earn.

Then they die. Their hard-earned possessions are passed to their kids, generation B. Now, their kids didn't get the wealth for themselves, but they have had a solid upbringing and have lived through a few hard times too.

So then they die, and pass their not-so-hard-earned possessions to THEIR kids. Now, generation B wanted their kids to have AAALLL the things they DIDN'T have when they were kids. So they give all this stuff to generation C.

Generation C hasn't had to work for any of it. They just had it passed to them. So they think it grows on trees. Of course, as they get older, they learn a few things about that.

But they die and pass it on to generation D. Now, generation D is SOOO far off from the original generation that did all the work, and they have had everything handed to them on a silver platter. So they become proud, wasteful and abusive of those less fortunate.

So much so that the lower class of society suffers from poverty, poor education, and the like. (Sound familiar?) And the cycle begins again.

See what I'm saying here? Thus, society tends to degenerate. So I suggest we work out a few things.