Modern society and Mortality

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by MH

Don't know....but look 100 years back and decide if you would like to live this way.
Its all matter of state of mind.....

Maybe I would indeed. It depends.

But I think it tells us something that after many German-Russians - offsprings of German settlers who moved to Russia centuries before, under Peter the Great, etc - returned to Germany since the early nineties,but that in the past years we have seen a wave of these Spätaussiedler having returned to Russia voluntarily - saying that they cannot live in even a wealthy country like Germany when the life here is so heartless and people interact so very cold with each other.

That is something many former GDR citizens say, too, that although there was a sub-optimal supply status in the GDR and no freedom to travel, people took more care for each other, and socially sticked closer to each other.

Material wealth alone does not make you a wealthy man. And you can be happy without being wealthy. When you are not wealthy in your heart and soul, you are not wealthy at all, no matter how many millions you earn per month. And being a humane human does not depend on your banking account, but on the state of your - well, call it "soul".

Full stop here, not derailing Oberon's thread any more.