I also wish all my problems would go away magically
Maybe it’ll be the same day my Mrs. Right appears. It’s been so long, the universe must really have a romantic surprise up its sleeve for me! Squee!
Remember everyone, if your utopia relies on the idea that everyone just peacefully gives up their power, it is doomed to fail.
IMHO: We all should strive to be the change we want to see in the world. But sometimes it’s even enough to just be the person that you wish to see in the world more often.
Tbf the chance I want to see in the world is “common sense” tho, so not much I can get better upon to help.
Like people are geniuenly trying to make fascism popular again so what am I supposed to self-improve at, punching?
IMO: punching would be useful in keeping fascists out of a community, if nothing else helps.
Unfortunately it seems to me that the nazis are being way better at self-improving their punching. At least here in northern europe, they frequently hold training camps with pretty rough sparring.
Ugh. Sons of Odin or whatever still a thing, or some new groups?
Hard to say. It looks like they kinda vanished after Ukraine war started. Soldiers of Odin still exists, but seems like they don’t do anything at least visibly.
The industrial mechanisms that promote climate change would not die with capitalism.
What would die is the goal of limitless growth (and limitless externalities). And it would presumably put the decision making about the right tradeoff between “industrial mechanisms” and the climate back in the hands of the people… instead of leaving that choice to self-interested billionaires.
If capitalism collapses, we’re most likely going back to feudalism, not ten-forward to Star Trek.
I wish to highlight that between the Bell Riots and the Phoenix, ST predicted that there would be both the Eugenics Wars and WW3, which leave the world so badly broken that the only “nations” that remain are the Western Alliance and the Eastern Coalition. Alameda, CA gets completely blown off the map; and it’s not the only such place.
It’s not a pretty picture, when you look at the history they gloss over.
For a while. Maybe the rest of our lives. We’d come out of it eventually.
Maybe in 1000 years democracy will have a resurgence and we’ll have a global democratic government.
Until people get complacent and it stops working and the whole thing collapses in on itself resulting in a return to feudalism.
My sweet summer child… We missed our chance. The revolution isn’t coming. Or maybe it will happen and then we will die anyways. The climate is fucked. There is no unfucking it. We can fuck it a little less than we currently are every year, but that isn’t going to save us.
The effects of this will rival the Permian extinction in the near term and in the long term, barring a miraculous turnaround through geological processes after a few thousand years, it will certainly be worse.
For reference, the Permian extinction wiped out 90% of ALL LIFE. Like 75% of land based life and 95% of all sea life (of which there was considerably more) at the time died out. It was caused by a sudden and severe increase in atmospheric greenhouse gasses over the course of several thousand years. We are outpacing that by orders of magnitude. So we could quite conceivably reach the levels seen during that time and we could do it much faster, giving all life even less time to adapt to the worst catastrophy in the history of life.
We’re boned, my dude.
We haven’t crossed the point of no return. We are accelerating because we keep press on the acceleration. If we stopped (as we did temporarily during Covid), stuff would get back on track. We have to act now
We’re a lot more likely to Balkanize and divide
I think we might see some form of separation.
Woody Allen, as flawed as he is, had a good quip about enjoying whatever brings you pleasure without feeling guilty.
The world isn’t going to get better. Evolution created a system where those bereft of morals make the rules. It’s literally in our nature to lie cheat and steal. Current humans are a statistical anomaly, aside from the tastier class.
Why should Capitalism collapse? The rich already own almost everything. Some will go broke but the system can continue forever. If nature collapses and food becomes scarce, it will just become more expensive.
Look at election results all over the world. Capitalism is already collapsing… into fascism.
If history is any indication, this means being not productive enough might not only get you fired, but also imprisoned or disappeared. Gotta kickstart a whole trillionaire class soon.Fascism is still capitalist and the two co exist. Capitalism to put it simply is an economic system and fascism is an ideology after all.
you gotta make it happen.
Covid 2.0 could definitely do us all in.
Because lard ass orange pile of shit is not preparing the world for a new pandemic and instead is destroying green energy and allowing AI to waste and pollute the environment.
i’d be glad if it did honestly
lol.
Why wait? Fucking help it collapse
You speak as if you are dissatisfied with having a system that fucking implodes by concepts of “automation” and “technology” in the “automation and technology” era.
Before it goes it will be proceeded be decades of massive corruption, general enshittification of everything, corporate rule and oppression.
When you are running away from corporate sentry drones, because you were outsite after curfew in hunger games type society, it’s better time to start waiting.
We’ve already had decades of massive corruption and general enshittification. Nothing stopping us from making things better.
So more of the same then
Waiting is usually not the best option. like, you can wait until the trash goes away on it’s own, but it might take longer than you expect, with consequences you might not.
Just saying…
