Paul Johnson
Field of reference: Politics, Sociology
Description: Lack of trust in modern society on a universal scale
"The world is groaning beneath a mountain of debt, but that's not the real problem. History shows repeatedly that debt can quickly be paid off once confidence is restored and men and women set to work with a will. But for that to happen we must have trust in those who lead us.
Trust is missing. We do not trust--and with good reason--either our elected leaders or the corporate elite who constitute the top echelons of society. Seldom in modern history has the lack of trust, now verging on contempt, been so deep, universal and comprehensive.
Today the word "banker" is a pejorative term. Local managers are anonymous persons held in low regard. City of London magnates are suspect figures. Bankers are associated with unrestrained greed, recklessness and professional incompetence. It would be hard to think of another group that has fallen so fast and so far in public esteem."
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Biomed Central
Field of reference: Psychology, Health
Description: נתונים על הדיכאון המתפשט בעולם
"121 מיליון איש ברחבי העולם סובלים מדיכאון. הדיכאון פוגע בכושר העבודה, מערער את היחסים עם הסביבה, ומדרדר את איכות החיים. דיכאון קשה מביא לעיתים קרובות לידי התאבדות: בכל שנה הוא הורג 850,000 איש. למסקנה הזאת הגיעו מומחים מ-20 מרכזי מחקר המשתתפים ביוזמת האו"ם World Mental Health Survey Initiative.
דיכאון חמור מאובחן בקרב 28% מתושבי המדינות העשירות ו-20% מאוכלוסיית המדינות המתפתחות. בצרפת, בהולנד ובארה"ב – למעלה מ-30%. ובסין – האחוזים הנמוכים ביותר: רק 12%. נשים סובלות מדיכאון בתדירות גבוהה פי שניים בהשוואה לגברים.
הגורם העיקרי שמוביל לדיכאון הוא פרידה מבן הזוג. מתברר שבגיל העמידה האדם תמיד נוטה לדיכאון. עבור הבריטים שיא הדיכאון הוא בגיל 44, ובארה"ב נשים בגיל 40 וגברים בגיל 50 מרגישים שהם הכי אומללים."
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Dr. Jerry Kennard
Field of reference: Psychology
Description: The progress and culture of Western society didn't bring happiness, instead, depression rates are rising
"Western culture has acquired a fairly negative image when it comes to mental health issues. Although highly advanced technologically a price has been paid in terms of our increasing fragmentation and detachment from family and community and an appetite for 24-hour living and working. We're more anxious and depressed than ever before and the situation is worsening rather than getting better. The argument that modern technology would one day protect us from ill-health and distress and open up a world of leisure and, by implication greater happiness, is looking decidedly dated."
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Dr. Hwang, Kyung-sig
Field of reference: History, Ecology
Description: Where is our development leading to/to what purpose. Cause & effects & responsibility
"Argument from humble ignorance
Some of the difficulties of relying the preferences of future generations stem from our present ignorance particularly as we project to futures that are increasingly remote, we do not know what effect our actions will have on them, or even how they will care.[17] Even if we set aside such factual ignorance, serious problems of value remain. Obligations to future generations are essentially an obligation to produce a desirable state of affairs for the community of the future to promote conditions of good living for future generations. But is our conception of the good life for man relevant to future generation?
While our ability to affect the future is immense, our ability to foresee the results of our environmental interventions is not. I think that our moral responsibility grows with foresight. And yet, paradoxically in some cases grave moral responsibility is entailed by the fact of one's ignorance. If the planetary life-support system appears to be complex and mysterious, humble ignorance should indicate respect and restraint. However, as many life scientists have complained, these virtues have not been apparent in these generations. Instead they point out, we have boldly marched ahead, shredding delicate ecosystems and obliterating countless species, and with them the unique genetic codes that evolved through millions of years; we have altered the climate and even the chemistry of the atmosphere, and as a result of all this-what?[18]"
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Albert Einstein
Field of reference: Sociology
Description: Human beings are prisoners of their own ego, which is the root of the crisis
"I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis in our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate. All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society".
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