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The explanations given by Daisaku Ikeda, President of the Soka Gakkai International (Buddhist organization), read as follows: "The twentieth century was an era marked by extreme disregard for human life, in which man squandered, dried up and polluted the priceless springs of life" (2001, p. 9).
Just remembering the 20th century as a century of death makes me reflect about this 21st century where the material has taken the place of the essential and spiritual, where humanity became nothing more than a forgotten word for many, today in the middle of a pandemic or a post pandemic, however you want to see it for me we are still in the middle of a major public health problem, which has caused millions of deaths throughout the world, I wonder where are we going?
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Are we perhaps taking a minute to think about the future implications of our actions, while some of us try in any way to maintain a little sanity in the midst of so much chaos there are those who are determined to selfishly destroy what little is left of the planet, while there are those who fight for a piece of land others plan trips to space and even talk about buying their own star. The XXI century will be remembered, I insist, if there is anyone left to remember, in a temporary space where the human being destroyed himself in his eagerness to achieve more and more material wealth, power and technological dominance.
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Today we know that this pandemic is just a part of something that was already a great disaster, I would like to think positively of the XXI century but that would be trying to cover the sun with a finger as is commonly said over there. Today it is necessary that people take control of their existence from the commitment with everything that surrounds them, because as long as we think we are islands and our life goes by without a direct and sincere connection with our environment and all the beings that surround us we will be creating a void in the history of humanity.
We still have a long way to go in this century and I really wish that all of us who inhabit this common home called Planet Earth understand the great responsibility we have to ourselves in the here and now but also for future generations. It is not about living, it is about existing with the commitment to make our passage through this space and time something truly memorable and worth remembering.
Quote source: Ikeda, Daisaku (2000) How to Create and Sustain a Century of Life. LD Graphic Productions.
hello @emimoron,
this will be one of the centuries that will be the most remembered by humanity, the damage caused by this generation to the environment is marked on the planet, although technological advances are important the damage generated may cause that there is no planet for future generations, what we can deduce is that at some point humanity will go into space and conquer it, but for now we only have a sick planet that we will inherit to our children.
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Wow! I was shocked to read that it could be remembered by the insistence of man's self-destruction, which seems to me true and of great weight, every day man is determined to destroy everything in its path, for control and superiority in everything, but also still a long way to q the century ends, I trust that we will come to our senses and save what we have excellent post, thanks for sharing
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Thank you very much my friend, I believe that humanity must come to its senses or else there will not be much left to remember, it seems unbelievable that every day we insist on destroying what gives us life and sustenance on the planet, the human species is the most destructive force that exists.
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The clumsiness of man is the stupidity of the human being.
This phrase is my own.
I think that defines what this century will somehow be remembered for, man in his (selfish eagerness) and I quote you, is the big problem social behavior has brought us to where we are but individual behavior is what defines us. So in some way from the family should be encouraged that individual behavior to do things right and that all as a society do not succumb to human stupidity by the clumsiness of man.
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Undoubtedly, one of the things that will be most remembered in the XXI century will be our position with respect to climate change, it remains to be seen if we will be remembered as the century that could avoid the worst consequences or the one that, knowing what was coming, did not do enough just to preserve its wealth and technological dominance.
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Totally, one of the greatest achievements of humanity in a negative way is the great climate change that we have caused by the excessive abuse of natural resources, only if we understand that we must change the way we think and act will a positive future be possible.
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Hello @emimoron.
Great article that you share with us on this occasion, actually our history as humanity is full of adversities and challenges that we have had to face at different times, maybe this century in which we live one of the biggest challenges and know how to value each other and especially our precious environment because of this depends our existence and the existence of future generations.
Recently we lived through the pandemic that has caused us so much damage, but nevertheless, we must focus on the challenge of achieving the right balance between our actions and care for our environment, is what I think about the twenty-first century.
Thank you for sharing such a rich content with all of us. Greetings and many successes.
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Exactly, my friend, that is what it is all about to achieve a fair balance, I believe that there is still an opportunity, we are more and more people committed to positive changes to our destructive habits, consumerism has caused human beings to see everything in its path as disposable things, even ourselves, and that is truly unfortunate.
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Hello @emimoron.
The importance of the 21st century lies in the fact that as humanity we will be able to overcome the adversities that we are experiencing with this pandemic, otherwise we will be remembered in history for having so many technological innovations that we did not use to overcome.
Greetings and thank you for your valuable contribution.
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I think it is time to learn from everything that has happened to us, if with the pandemic and its effects people do not learn, I really do not know what else needs to happen for a change to happen. For me the pandemic has been a necessary evil where the world realized that we are not necessary to continue life on the planet because we are one more species that in the blink of an eye can become extinct as happened with the dinosaurs.
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Greetings @emimoron. No doubt he will be remembered for several transcendental events such as:
The pandemic and how we have been able to recover through science to vaccinate the world population, going through the global economic interests, selfishness and little brotherhood between peoples, ay that there are countries that have not been vaccinated not one of its citizens.
The climatic problems that every day affect us more and more and that the industrialized countries do not want to regulate their activities to preserve the planet.
Politically, the clear interests of some countries to be dominant on the planet, by being interventionist in the name of freedom.
Thank you very much for sharing such an interesting publication
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I could not have said it in a more accurate way, I think those three aspects you point out are fundamental and if you look at their center is the same, the selfishness and contempt of human beings towards everything around them including ourselves, you might think that the picture is really bad from these points of view but for me are necessary shocks to achieve connect us with what is really important in our lives. Thanks for contributing to the content of the post. Congratulations
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I believe we will be remembered as a generation who happened to pass through pandemics and tough times, yet couldn't achieve anything (at least for now), when these kinds of events are a time for many to shine we can't see anyone shining at the moment, we are mostly waiting for things to change but not being able to change even with all the technological advances we are having everyday, it seems not enough or at least not useful.
I've read yesterday about a singer (Rapper) buying a planet, sadly we can see this kind of news, but we can't see that there some scientists for instance found a cure for such great diseases.
Thanks for sharing!
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It is exactly what I mean, people with greater resources instead of putting the technology and economic power they have to the order of generating real solutions to the problems of our planet concentrate their energies on space exploration and imagine the great audacity of saying that you own a planet when there are people who are not owners of their own lives because today have been generated new forms of slavery that makes us less human every day. Thank you for sharing and contributing
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Sadly, my dear friend @emimoron humanity or at least most of it focuses more on satisfying their individual needs than on seeking the collective good, many people running after money, fame or material goods, using technological advances to satisfy banal whims or generate greater wealth.
I also want to think that there is an increasingly growing group of people who are focusing on growing spiritually, raising their consciousness and seeing beyond material things, I hope that this movement continues to grow to the point of representing a point of reference and leadership for societies in many countries.
Thank you very much for making us reflect with your interesting publications.
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As per me this century has the most number of deaths in the history and this two years 2020-21 is the worst year in the human mankind still the world is trying to recover from this situation and facing huge problem. We need to take care for our near and dear one.
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