Is the World Changing Faster than Human Capacity to Change?

Absolutely not! The world is ever changing but values and moral principles make us human,without them we would be either animals or cyborgs.
I would keep all the values,e.g. respecting your elders,being polite etc but I wish I could remove some of human vices!:) Sounds impossible,doesn't it?
Yes,we live in difficult time and there are wars everywhere,small and large,and technology changes faster than we can keep up.So what? I'm sure a century ago people were confused and perplexed with cars and telephones,as well as the World War. The society might be not as gentle and refined as it was but people haven't changed much.

As the world changes it may very well be that it's not fit for humans any more. then we'll be gone. This world has wiped most life from it's surface many times, that we humans have discovered. So it would be very naive of us to think it can't or won't do so again. Have a Happy New Year, while we are still here to enjoy.

I feel like it's more a case of the world changing faster than we want it to change. It is more a challenge to us to adapt, and if we can, we will become stronger because of it.:-) Derek

well that is a hard question that really takes some serious thought,

on the one hand yes, it is hard especially for older people to adapt to the way of young people and there values, like couples living together without being in a marriage is still hard for many older people, but then many older people have lived through many changes and fared out well,

i grew up with a black and white tv, I learned to type on an old manual typewriter, then went to an electric typewriter and finally a computer.

when I first started to work in an office there was no computer system to do the office work, now it is very hard to find an office that doesn't use a computer in some capacity.

my mom used to do the washing with an old fashioned ringer washer,

it was the custom to wear only black to a funeral as a sign of respect, now people where any color they feel like it.

older people stayed in a bad marriage rather than get divorced, but today people get divorced at a drop of a hat.

and so on

Well I am definately from the old school of reason so I tend to hang on to those old customs and values. You know when people treated others with respect. When woman were treated with dignity and our flag was something also respected. Those are values that we should never get rid of and I believe since these things have started to slide our society has as well. You see people pushing and shoving people to be first in line. Usually at the expense of others. See the clerk who was killed in a NY Walmart just before Christmas. We see young people talking, launghing and sitting with their hats on as the flag of their country passes by.
You see men abusing woman and taking them for granted. What ever happened to respect for our fellow man and for our country. These are values sorely lacking today that I would like to see more of in our society today.

As many people have pointed out in recent years, the rate of technological change has been exponential for the past century or so, and yes, I think we are all having trouble keeping up. Society, at least the bulk of society, seems to need social stability if it is to maintain moral and ethical standards, and the changes have unfortunately put real strain on those things.

It should be possible to adjust, at least for the more flexible minds among us, without the social structure collapsing, but it seems that felxibility is very much a minority trait.

A lot of things seen as values, however, particularly in the sexual, political, and religious areas, are culturally specific, and vary enormously from place to place and time to time. There are certain values, however, which seem to remain constant over long periods and in all cultures, particularly to do with human interaction. Co-operation, altruism, respect for elders (where deserved), and all those elements contained within the various Golden Rules and criminal codes. Those, I feel, should be emphasised and maintained; the culturally labile stuff should be ignored, unless it impinges on personal freedom, as in sexual moralism, jingoistic patriotism, and religious bigotry.

Lash

I DISAGREE.

Because human capacity to change is much faster than the world changing. Human create the changing factor to make the world changing. Changing factors that I realized are human innovation, exploration and discovery.

Human innovation can be categorized into 4; create new, the extension to the existing, duplication and synthesize activity. These innovative categories are for human solving any desperation for need.

Human exploration is a must for human because human mind is infinitive. Keep on searching for new things as they rivals to each other and challenging to one another; to be called as a pioneer.

Human discovery is the activity of human looking for the reason why does one thing happen on this world and for why it had happened and materialize in that such way.
You asked me for "Is this good or bad?". Of course for goodness and the badness happened all the while because of some them have loss direction and disorientation when in desperation situation.

Give up the old values?. Perfect question from you and thanks for providing. My answer is for YES, we really need to give up the old values, all of them. To make things much better.

DISCARD VALUE - Disharmony, Discordant and Disarray.

RETAIN VALUE - Humanitarian, Innovation, Beneficence.

What else? Finished?...Ohhhh, Thank You So Much.

Hi bantilesroger, You have raised a very important question here, are we capably of keeping up with changes or are they coming just too fast? First of all I want to say clearly that I don't think we have to give up all the old values, but first we have to decide which of these values are serving us better. What is really important in life? I expect you want a better life for yourself and your family, almost everyone does. Many people would want to see peace, so lets set our mind to a way of achieving peace. There is a saying that peace much begin with peace in our own hearts. If people really knew each other better we would find that there isn't really much difference in what we all want, certainly not enough to kill someone over. You see the question is, "What do we mean by the old values"? It may be something that we'll have to think long and hard about. Blessings.

I do believe that the world is changing faster than the human capacity to adapt. That is why time seems to be speeding up. We are constantly playing catchup with everything that is going on.

As far as giving up values I think that we have already given up to many of those. In evidence of this I would point to the increase in violent crime and in particular violent crime committed by children. Because we have given up the right to discipline our children they act out more and more.

Hi bantilesroger,


Well I believe in old values as they are a good teaching, so I will keep all for them, but today people don't believe in anything so that is why this world is in a terrible place.


Tamara