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I read the Tennyson poem before I ever read Homer's original but your analysis is one of the best I have heard. Great video mate. I love this kind of thought sharing. Many thanks and all the best.

Given the opportunity to become lotus eaters, I think some cultures are more prone to it than others are. We might find ways of adjusting to it. I see a parallel in exercise. It used to be that everyone got their exercise just by doing what they needed to survive. Now, most people can get by without doing any. We adjusted by doing exercise just for the sake of exercise in addition to whatever else we do with our time (if we have it). If we wind up with that paradise where machines do everything for us, they might also do whatever prodding required to keep us human. One might say that this would make us almost human, since we're no longer self-prodders, but in the beginning it was nature that prodded us, not us (we did what we had to to survive). We're sort of in between right now. Nature prods us, and so do we.

I gave this some thought this morning as i was going about my morning jobs...and i think something like this. If you don't believe in God then the answer is pretty clear. Everything happens by chance and the consequences of the best "chance happenings" become dominant until by chance some other chance happening comes along and dominates. In the context of human life this means whatever an individual does is by chance and no moral or social consequences can be put upon the individual. Human will always conquer human. Societies will replace societies. The answers don't matter because there are no answers in such a world only chance. (Cont.)

Powerful stuff mate especially after a funeral today of a much love and cool uncle. He was certainly not a Lotus eater and over 150 people who were there would agree. Plus you've just made me cry again so get in that garden and get some work done ✌️

Good stuff Gary. The bliss of ignorance, just isn't an option any more.