Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
I've always been bothered by this concept that we are rapidly evolving as a species.
If I were to guess, I suspect each generation thinks they are the ones that are finally enlightened enough to begin acting in a way that surpasses those that came before them. My wife and I had a conversation centered around this concept yesterday when discussing the shooting at UCSB and the notion that kids get bullied in school and the repercussions thereof over time. She, being an enlightened/PhD-holding/evolved person, seems to think that society can rid ourselves of hazing/bullying/hierarchy/all evils. I fall a tad to the other side of the fence in that I do not think that the emergence of iPhones/Facebook/Twitter/KIK/Etc. has magically moved society 50 notches forward on the evolutionary scale.

I'm not suggesting that I wish upon those of you who have children the recanting of stories at dinner about junior being bullied. However, if you have a couple of wimp/gay/nerd kids, you can pretty much plan on it, this year, as well as 50/100/500 years from now. Bullying isn't going to ever go away, neither is racism, sexism, or any other ism. We are humans and overall equality isn't going to happen. If it were, Rwanda would be on equal footing with Monaco - which simply ain't gonna happen - ever.

You can wish for world peace, pie in the sky, and a free lunch. -doesn't mean you are gonna to get it through.