Do you have hope for the future?

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Be honest.

Is there a positive future for Human and non Human Earthlings?

Besides roaches and rats, most animals suffer under our rule.

Human comfort is rising, but our mindstates are more unsatisfied.

The physical environment is now fighting us. Our activity has turned the very weather against us.

Every drop of water and gust of air is polluted.

Sounds grim.

Personally I believe Humans are the first intelligent species in the Universe and maybe the single ancestor of all other life across the galaxies.

As such. We will survive this. We will continue to thrive and expand. Until there's nowhere left to go.
 

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'Humanity' was near-extinction a few thousand years ago......


We survived, then, we'll continue to adapt, adjust, and overcome.​
 

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Industrial civilization as we understand it is going to collapse sooner and more rapidly than 99% of people realize.

Having said that, our species will survive. We survived a very long time before electricity and we will survive a very long time after it. It is unlikely we will leave the planet.

Hug your loved ones and learn how to make a knife. Good luck to you, sorry for the bad news, enjoy your evening.
 

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It's pretty dicey, the general greed of so many is becoming insane and it really seems many humans are hard wired to follow totalitarian strong men who definitely having a moment in this new millennium
 

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Yes. I've been looking at all these other countries in South America, Asia, etc with literally hundreds of millions of people suffering in a hellhole.

Why do you think they do anything to come to America? Yes the world is rough but America is 10000x better than most countries.
 

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7 billion is A LOT of people. I remember reading a book where humans are called bugs by an intelligent, highly advanced race of aliens who were on their way to exterminate humans and take over earth.

The characters were depressed and one of them took the protagonist to a field that had been infested with locusts.

He explains that humans had developed all sorts of methods for eradicating these creatures and developed all manner of poison and yet they still remained.

Humanity is similar to the creatures(roaches, flies, grasshoppers, ants, rodents, pigeons) that have thrived as a result of human activity. Industrial society will collapse. Billions will die, but humans will still be around. Maybe it will be a max of 200k left, but we will still be around. What we are going to experience is a full system reboot. You may even see the traumatized children of the people who experienced this disaster outright banning technology advancing beyond a certain point and banning hoarding of any kind. You're immediately killed if you take more than you can ever need and deny the vulnerable in society the valuable resources they need to exist. They'll have a hardline approach to greed. No second chances, just immediate death or imprisonment.
 

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7 billion is A LOT of people. I remember reading a book where humans are called bugs by an intelligent, highly advanced race of aliens who were on their way to exterminate humans and take over earth.

The characters were depressed and one of them took the protagonist to a field that had been infested with locusts.

He explains that humans had developed all sorts of methods for eradicating these creatures and developed all manner of poison and yet they still remained.

Humanity is similar to the creatures(roaches, flies, grasshoppers, ants, rodents, pigeons) that have thrived as a result of human activity. Industrial society will collapse. Billions will die, but humans will still be around. Maybe it will be a max of 200k left, but we will still be around. What we are going to experience is a full system reboot. You may even see the traumatized children of the people who experienced this outright banning technology advancing beyond a certain point and banning hoarding of any kind. You're immediately killed if you take more than you can ever need and deny the vulnerable in society the valuable resources they need to exist. They'll have a hardline approach to greed. No second chances, just immediate death or imprisonment.
Three Body Problem.
 

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Be honest.

Is there a positive future for Human and non Human Earthlings?

Besides roaches and rats, most animals suffer under our rule.

Human comfort is rising, but our mindstates are more unsatisfied.

The physical environment is now fighting us. Our activity has turned the very weather against us.

Every drop of water and gust of air is polluted.

Sounds grim.

Personally I believe Humans are the first intelligent species in the Universe and maybe the single ancestor of all other life across the galaxies.

As such. We will survive this. We will continue to thrive and expand. Until there's nowhere left to go.
animal and plant AND fungal life is more advanced than we realize but their goals are not the same as ours
 

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Yes. I've been looking at all these other countries in South America, Asia, etc with literally hundreds of millions of people suffering in a hellhole.

Why do you think they do anything to come to America? Yes the world is rough but America is 10000x better than most countries.

The Human Empire started with Egypt.

Then Greece. Then Rome.

Europe united under the Catholic Church spread the Empire truly globally.

Then US America became the seat of the Empire.

It's one unbroken line. Although America doesn't rule other nations, She does absolutely rule almost all other nations. Not with directly firepower. But with McDonalds and Rocket Racc00n. Everywhere on Earth people speak American English and accept U$D.
 
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The Human Empire started with Egypt.

Then Greece. Then Rome.

Europe united under the Catholic Church spread the Empire truly globally.

Then US America became the seat of the Empire.

It's one unbroken line. Although America doesn't rule other nations, She does absolutely rule almost all other nations. Not with directly firepower. But with McDonalds and Rocket Racc00n. Everywhere on Earth people speak American English and accept U$D.
have you ever considered the possibility...that the future is giving rise to the past?

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the egyptian priests divined the "netherworld" of the land west of the nile. What that implies is more convoluted than egyptologists have transcribed
 

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have you ever considered the possibility...that the future is giving rise to the past?

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the egyptian priests divined the "netherworld" of the land west of the nile. What that implies is more convoluted than egyptologists have transcribed

Breh.

First off: thank you for making my other thread multi plat. I don't always understand your angle, but I am always intrigued by your bars.

Short answer: Yes. But... I don't understand the example you put forth.
 
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Nothing lasts forever, so go far enough and we're all dead.
 
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