We failed
- Started 11 years ago
- Last post 9 years ago
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- reanimate0
This will cheer you up :)
The End of History?
The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close.
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- Peter0
If you couldn't figure this out without NASAs help please direct your attention to youtube comments. Any random but highly viewed youtube video.
- CALLES0
Welp! That was fun
- mg330
I really need to stop reading so much stuff like this, but it's hard not to. Between things like this, terrorism, the border issues, etc. I feel like I'm putting my mind in a bad place and slowly getting depressed about the state of this world, when I should be much happier about the good things in life. As I mentioned in the ISIS thread, we have our first child on the way in January, and I guess all this is really adding up and making me wonder what kind of world this will be in 2 years? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?
- benfal990
maybe Ebola will kill 1/3 of entire World population. Let's hope Ebola whipes ISIS from the map.
- inteliboy0
mg33 - I once read this interview with a 90+ old lady. She was asked about how the world is getting worse, more violent, wars etc. and she said something along lines of "No, it's always been like this, since I was a little girl"
- ********0
I agree with the 90+ old lady.
- ********0
We already failed:
- that Elephants pic always cracks me up.mg33
- that Kardashian Elephants pic always cracks me up.organicgrid
- That last one is a co2 pelet gun, she wouldnt be that dead, just hurting and half blind********
- mg330
inteliboy,
I think there's some validity to what she's saying, but in the context of OUR own lifetime, I feel like there are more bad things happening, and the potential for unimaginable bad things to happen, than in the 36 years I've been alive.
To be completely honest, I fear a natural disaster just as much as I fear one caused by man. Nobody knows what will ever happen, but I'm finding that my general worry centers on either
a) A terrorist attack on the electrical grid in the US that shuts down portions of it for a length of time, causing mass chaos and disorder, especially in big cities like where I live.
b) a natural disaster like a massive solar flare (scientists are fearing these more and more lately for some reason) that shuts EVERYTHING down for a LONG time, basically taking us back to the 1800s.Both of these fears boil down to one thing: the breakdown of society and mass disorder, fighting, looting, etc. that would plague major cities, and almost immediate scarcity of daily resources like water, food, a job to go to, etc.
And I know you're going to think I'm jumping to some massive conclusions here. But the scary thing is to think how little it might actually take to just really effect things long term. I try to imagine that there are enough people and a strong government to take care of everyone, but I also realize there are a lot of clueless, manipulative, selfish people out there who would do whatever they feel like to succeed.
I've read that people theorize that 9 out of 10 people would die within a couple months if something catastrophic that happened to the electrical grid that shut it down for years. That's almost unimaginable. So my stress sort've centers around if that happened, would me and my family have the resources to survive and be alight?
And again, I know, I know... I am probably doing a lot of worrying and pondering for nothing. But I'd way rather suffer the stress of doing that than be absolutely clueless and have no idea what to do in the event of a major disaster.
- inteliboy0
There's no doubt we'll be screwed if events like that happened. Do you also stress about the collapse of our environment? For me that is more of a real long-term threat to humanz than a random environmental disaster.
- Peter0
"To be completely honest, I fear a natural disaster just as much as I fear one caused by man. Nobody knows what will ever happen...
...these fears boil down to one thing: the breakdown of society and mass disorder, fighting, looting, etc. that would plague major cities, and almost immediate scarcity of daily resources like water, food, a job to go to, etc."
It gets worse: I missed out on cashing in on this thought-trend.
http://www.google.com/trends/exp…
- Ianbolton0
I like the idea that optimism will get us further, but then in the same way we only learn from crisis it seems.
Anyway, here's some shit from Matt 'everything's gonna be alright' Ridley. http://www.rationaloptimist.com/…
- benfal990
that movie is fucking heavy
- benfal990
the day when humans have put a value on an object for exchange against something else, humans began to fail. the day when humans have established religions, humans have begun to fail.
Money and religion are the two sources of all our "woes"
I think that humans have had to turn to nature, such as First Nations and grow around nature. animal instinct with the creative genius of the human could have become something great.
And if we needed one "god", it should have been Gaia, the Mother Earth. Everything Would Be different.
- autoflavour0
I blame Bre tt Ba sh
