Word: ends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People in this country have been convinced to work now for a reward they will get later. But the future never holds any value in the present. So the coming end shouldn't intimidate us now. Its threat is part of the definition of our existence. And because it exists, we should value...
...COURSE, when the world ends, it will probably be drawn out and painful. Most people assume that on the Judgment Day God will appear above the clouds shortly after sunset and announce, "Well, guys, this is about it worldwise." The end of the world is actually much more likely to see its 6 billion people choking for three weeks on the fleeting oxygen in the air, and wretching with discase from the rotting corpses. Many kooks and nuts will rise to brief power during these final weeks. The New York Times will stop publishing...
...which raises the question of whether or not we should be doing anything to put off the end. For we don't like to see mass suffering, and the symptoms of the end, millions shortening their lives on polluted air and starving to death in overpopulated countries, are already with us. And because the binds of a complex technology make our every action a cause or effect on someone else's life, we are responsible for their agony...
What it comes down to is that we should act in a way consistent with the values of our existence in a given moment or a given situation. That is, we should try to fight the end by trying to mitigate the bad effects it has on our daily lives. We should not resist the idea that the world is going to end because that is going to happen and soon. But until it's over we should fight it- try to ban the bomb, CBW, DDT, and the SST- because the values of our existence are structured that...
This does not mean that we should pretend that the end of the world is not coming or that we should ignore it. Rather, with the end of the world somewhere in mind, we should avoid doing absurd things just because we hope that they will be "remembered by mankind." Mankind will not be in a position to remember anything. We should not slave all our lives at dull jobs just to pile up enough cash so "our children will have everything...