If people aren't getting any happier as they continue to get richer...

[kindell]

then why do we continue to trash the planet and turn people into consumptive zombies in pursuit of economic growth?

That's the real question. Growth lies at the root of all our social ills. Growth has alienated our fellow humans from us and has made us into so many impersonal, material-oriented people. It has corrupted our priorities and political

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[ichorknightmare]

Don't you just love our world? Sarcasm cannot properly convey my agreement.

[cloverdryad]

I agree with your statement. With progress comes lower mortality rates, resulting in a longer life-span for the average human, literacy increases (comparatively, when speaking historically), convenience on everyday life abounds on various levels...the list could go on and on. Leaps and bounds have been made in the past century in technology and science, revealing more than we've ever known about the origins and nature of our own species, and yet there is something that always seems to be missing; a unique quality that has slipped away between the advent of the lightbulb and the ipod; an intrinsic ingredient to the ethos of man. I have no idea what it is. No one really seems to be able to identify it, but it's interesting to note that everyone agrees on some level that whatever it was, we miss its presence.