modernization

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation.

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...

Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn__ alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Everybody in those days was a foreigner, no matter where they were born; as industrial modernization had its way with people and places, no one was native to the transformation of the United States from an agricultural economy to the foremost industrial power in the world--the factory being both the cause and the effect of an act of becoming, the likes of which nobody had ever seen before.

But Bennie knew that what he was bringing into the world was shit. Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust! Bennie knew better than to say this stuff aloud.

This division is not one by religious affiliation, rather it separates the extremists and the peace-loving people.Therefor I'm optimistic: now a humanistic Islam is getting shaken awake. Moderate Islam needs now to finally break cover and explain how to deal with the violence-glorifying parts of the Quran. The (psychological) repression that this has nothing to do with our belief doesn't work anymore. We have to face this challenge.

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.