So succinctly put catalyst52.

And thus hackers and whistleblowers are a threat and treated as criminals.

Yet. As u said. What to do.
So we can't go back to the loin cloth and thus look to science.
What does that mean for mankind?
More freedom? Or greater controls?

B.

Yewrev...I get your point.Sadly this modern world has lost its sense of what one used to call "old values".
In todays day and age both mum and dad are forced to work due to the economic climate. Kids are left to their own means.
Their aspirations are to be the next Kim k or kanye west.
Hollywood has set the standard of achievement.peer pressure dictates more than parental control.
Social media defines interaction and courage to express oneself in the most inappropriate ways without repurcussions or taking ownership of ones bad behaviour.
Gender equality has marred the lines of acceptable or non-acceptable behaviour between men and woman.
How many of us still understand what it means to be embarrassed and when to hang ones head in shame?

Question....how many people know how to debate and not take offense and lash out visciously making it about themselves?

We, as humans, have become arrogant in our own self worth.

Kids.

what do they say?

"monkey see. Monkey do."

B.

Miss B

We as the people of this world are the reason it has lost the "old Values". In our strive to become rich and famous, to be better than the guy next door, we have lost our value system. We the current generation are to be blamed for that. We cannot change the past, but can determine about the future.

A lot of people have grown-up in a single parent environment, where the mom had to work to ensure their is food on the table for her kids, some, if not most, of those people have grown into very good role models, so to blame it on the fact that both parents are working and don't have time to educate their kids is absolutely wrong. If they don't have time to raise their children to respect others, to to better themselves and to become someone they can be proud off, they should not have kids in the first place.

Peer pressure is not something new, it has and will always be part of our daily life's. It is how we handle that pressure that matters. How we handle the pressure is testament to our value system.

"how many people know how to debate and not take offense and lash out viciously making it about themselves?"

Very few people know how to agree to disagree, once again comes down to respect. Allow each and everyone his opinion, and if you don't agree, you welcome to raise your own opinion, but do it respectfully.

"Working Class Hero"

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules

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When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function, you're so full of fear
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Keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

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There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

- John Lennon

Tim Guldimann.
Defined the risk paradigm for JP Morgan and the entire financial system for the last 30 years.
He said....the only way to tell the future is to think about the past and thus his paradigm was a number that captured historical likelihood.

But
Does being analytical and numerical guarantee a better outcome than acting on pure gut feel when it comes to the financial market?

Quote " Attempts to measure risk can encourage the financial players to act as if they had mastered it."

Till Guldimann bowed out of JP Morgan and said at one point " No amount of quantative methodology will allow u to abandon judgment. Judgement is far more important than numbers"

Humans are doomed to fail at the role of playing gods.

Economics - an illusion that it is just a game about money.

From programme on BBC called "Bankers".

B.

Big Brother is watching.
After 9/11 the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed in the US.

Our every move is monitored.

I've witnessed a little old lady plead with the bank clerk to unfreeze her account.

Her Proof of Residence was not updated!