On: This Can’t Go On

[TchoBeer]

I get that, but we survived the world wars and the cold war, so I hold out some hope.

[howaboutnope → TchoBeer]

For me the question isn't if there will be warm bodies around, but if they will have agency, dignity, a longing for justice and a capability for empathy, plus a lot of other things at least I associate with humans being human, rather than appendages of machinery that accumulates power without any use for it other than accumulating more power.

[mbfg → TchoBeer]

yes. but we were far less capable of killing ourselves then. The further we go, the more easily we will find it to kill ourselves.