Thom Swain

Forever New

Turn on the news, bring up the internet, read a newspaper, and the horrors of man's inhumanity to man seem epidemic all around us. In a world apparently dominated by fear and greed, is the ideal of the 'goodness of Mankind' merely an illusion? Are our media sources an accurate insight into the nature of human beings on planet Earth? Or could it be that our perceptions of our civilization are more a quantitative illusion rather than a qualitative reality? Consider by what means YOU may have concluded that perhaps humanity is indeed a 'lost cause.' For most who hold this impression it is hard to escape the truth that such perceptions of billions of our fellow human beings are based on information received by an unbelievably 'small quantity of sources' – and that qualitatively those sources of information are largely discontinuous within most of our inter-personal experiences.   Read more...