RE: World's oldest computer may be older than previously thought

['Chris de Morsella' via Everything List]

 

 

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Subject: Re: World's oldest computer may be older than previously thought

 

On 12/7/2014 4:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

We are better for the survival, but we might be astonished for the quality of 
life, even of the poors. It is very hard to judge. We have much more depression 
and suicides, we have much more elderly people abandoned by their family. We 
have much more fake conviviality and superficial happiness. We have new fears 
and new subject of despair (like atomic bombs, pollution, prohibition, ...). I 
just mean that I am not completely persuaded that the technological progresses 
made us more happy.


Of course there's not much depression and suicide in Syria - because there's so 
much grief and homicide.

 

Having lived in a war zone I can affirm that the Syrian people have been deeply 
traumatized by their recent experiences. I am sure that the people of Syria are 
suffering immensely, and that they have been psychologically damaged and that 
their society will be experiencing PTSD after-shocks – resulting from the 
extreme trauma of brutal sectarian war -- for decades to come.

I feel so bad for anyone whose life becomes imprisoned in such a hell of hate 
and death that is the inevitable result of a state of war. I can close my eyes 
and still picture the soul dead eyes of the victims of war.. too numbed by 
their anguish, grief and pain to show any outward signs of life…. Their bodies 
burned, broken and maimed by the industrial scale technology of death visited 
upon them and their villages from the sky.

I am positive that there is and will be a massive uptick in clinical depression 
and other psychological trauma such as uncontrollable outbursts of PTSD driven 
rage and so forth, in Syria over the next four or five decades as a result of 
this horrible sectarian war. Even if it is not diagnosed as being clinical 
depression and remains closeted in the unreported regions of the visible 
reported society as we outsiders can view it… it is there right now latent and 
locked up in all the unbelievable grief that so many Syrians must be feeling 
right about now.

War is terrible, as anyone who has seen it (and is not a blood lusting 
psychopath) will say. War leaves behind masses of human wrecks, both physical 
wrecks, broken maimed, burned bodies.. and psychological wrecks. War is hell, 
and the costs of war continue to accrue long after the war has “ended”.

-Chris



Brent
We are all happy, if we but knew it.
      --- Dostoevski

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