Have we lost what it takes in advance, did we peak too soon?

Question:We need to keep travelling outwards as a species to avoid becoming fixated on unimportant details about our own lives. There was the inspiration of seeing Earth from space, which enabled us to understand that we were all together on this tiny, precious planet in a lifeless void (although i do believe there is life elsewhere) and would either all live together or die together. Nowadays, people even doubt that anyone even went to the Moon, which just shows how introverted our culture has become. We should have colonies on Mars by now.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: We need to keep travelling outwards as a species to avoid becoming fixated on unimportant details about our own lives. There was the inspiration of seeing Earth from space, which enabled us to understand that we were all together on this tiny, precious planet in a lifeless void (although i do believe there is life elsewhere) and would either all live together or die together. Nowadays, people even doubt that anyone even went to the Moon, which just shows how introverted our culture has become. We should have colonies on Mars by now.

Personally, I blame it on the moonlit sky.

advance to what? too soon for what?

No , as a civilization , we simply need to realize that hard work is necessary and that beyond hard work, having some sense of responsibility towards the society you live in.

Many folks do, the most obvious is military service, but less obvious are those whom teach when they could earn more doing something else, those whom serve in the general sense (teachers, doctors, soldiers, engineers, etc) and invent therefore represent the best chance for our species to evolve beyond where we are in material terms.

However, there is a large - and in my opinion unfortunate - swing towards a somewhat a-moral , society where whatever is "easiest" or "feels good" is the right thing to do, this is of course not the case, but that doesn't stop a great many people from believing it to be so. This musical ride of course stops, when it becomes increasingly difficult to do the "easy" stuff.

So it's easier to let someone else do the "math" or "computer stuff" or whatever, until you go to get the job and don't yourself know how to do those "hard" things.

So while the new ethic in schools is to cheat whenever possible, this however does nothing to help those people when they graduate and actually are expected to be able to "do" those things, it's alot like that in life.

So it is with anything else. We'll get where-ever we want to be - but it won't be necessarily easy - it will be hard work and once that work is done, we will truly deserve to have gotten where ever we did.

However, if no hard-work is forthcoming, than yeah someone else or (as a nation) some other nation to some along and eat our lunch for us because most folks know those principles too.

We have alot of advantages but all it takes is complacency to loose those advantages to a determined and hard-working adversary.

Captain Ambiguous strikes again!
If you were hoping to start a heated debate on the nature of humanity, our progress and other bullshit, then hope some more, because you've failed miserably, cockmuncher. There's a detail box for a reason, you presumptuous cock, fill it in.

it depend on where you are when you are looking

Think! That's a common human tragedy. People don't think before picking what it takes, and end up by losing in advance.

If the world is so great.Then why does it scream under a blue moon?
We wonder why If the earth's sacrificed for the price of it's greatest treasure.

As a civilisation, we peaked early without the benefit of 'breeding out' the worst faults.
How many times does the law of the wild rear its head in our society? There are the inane but devisive actions caused by philosophies - my god is better than your god (when they are all the same god). In our fragmented society, a few men are killing their girlfriends offspring, just as a male lion will kill the cubs of other males. I think we still have a long way to go to evolve into a 'proper' society where we can all live together without the religion of bigots or neanderthal throwbacks.

we dont control evolution.