myrmepropagandist
Wanting to live in the end times is kind of cowardly since it absolves of you of the burden of building a better future. Some great compelling force will come down from on high and sort it all out.
Since you don't really know what times you face it's more responsible and brave to live as if these are the "Beginning Times" instead. And with great effort you may do a tiny bit of good that lasts a few decades beyond your grave.
HighlandLawyer
@futurebird
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Or "better world" as some people prefer
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
those who cheer armageddon or "accelerationism":
so you're happy to see your grandchildren die?
the essential conceit with such people is they have main character syndrome
they believe they will survive
the reality is:
cut your toe, oops sepsis
or they have a cache of gold: dude with a gun gets that
or they have a bunker: you mean your head of security has a bunker
or they believe in their holy purity: their judgment of themselves can be quite flawed, sometimes cringe level
myrmepropagandist
I love the modern world and I will fight about it.
I love my antibiotics and clean drinking water.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
with you 1,000%
i ran into something that made me laugh recently:
anti-iodine posts
someone genuinely against putting iodine in table salt
i laughed because it dovetails perfectly with the ignorance of vaccine denial
they never saw cretinism. someone with a goiter. someone with extreme physical and mental deformities due to iodine deficiency
it's all about ignorance and obliviousness to what we have, and zero education and awareness of what we need to do *to keep what we have*
myrmepropagandist
We have created an interconnected world economy that requires billons of educated and skilled people to function correctly. What I fear most that that there are far too many who don't understand that we don't have any people to spare. We don't have any children we can afford to fail to educate or any communities that we can let fall to waste without the whole system shuddering and breaking in ways that may even reach the best insulated.
myrmepropagandist
"I am pretty sure we are experiencing the beginning of the end of the Industrial Age"
I don't know about all that. We are accustomed to 'growth' and technological progress. It may slip back or stall. It may even simply fail to grow as fast as it has previously. But I don't think we're going back to a previous age, even if we fail to do our best to address challenges like the climate.
No, what we do risk is that millions will die needlessly. And without them we will achieve less.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC
@futurebird I am pretty sure we are experiencing the beginning of the end of the Industrial Age, and its downfall will be horrible. No divine power will come to save us. We need to build the foundations of a new society while there's still some time left, before everything becomes too chaotic.
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