If we as a society would...
Indeed :).
The thing is, along with the globalization and the technological advance we experienced in the last two centuries (at large), we have lost our social balance.
This evolution has accelerated the natural race and our life span is not enough anymore in order to accommodate.
How to explain it? We are three minds. The body mind, the brain mind, and the spirit mind.
The brain is the one who leads, but if it gets too focused on what he wants, an unbalanced ratio appears, hence all the fucked up stuff you can observe in today's society :).
The brain mind is the one most easily controlled from outside also. Desires and reactions are all in there. And because of all the noise around, we can't hear the other two minds anymore.
Basically, we run on emergency mode all the time nowadays. At least the majority of people do.
In my previous comment I was stating some facts, not the desired ones though :D. But hey, we have a conversation now :).
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