It’s perplexing to see that in the meantime first world countries are busy with the AI race and accelerating environmental issues.
‘don’t look up!’
It’s not perplexing. The worst of humanity — the criminals, the psychopaths, the sociopaths, the pedophiles, the corrupt — are all attracted to positions of wealth and power.
Ethics and morality are complex/expensive. They can only exist in an environment of abundance. The only thing separating us from cavemen is education; the ability to document and transfer information across generations; the ability to produce excess resources than we need to survive. Self-sacrifice is basically rejecting those baser survival instincts of physical pleasure and worldly possessions for some ephemeral concept of “the greater good”. That’s what we need right now, but capitalism explicitly rewards the baser instinct of selfishness and greed with wealth and power, so the most greedy and selfish of humanity prevail.
It doesn’t matter than civilization was built on cooperation or collective effort, or that selfishness and greed are a regressive, unproductive, dead end that will doom us all. Selfishness and greed only need to prevail long enough to destroy the foundations of civilization, like a stable climate and agriculture. Once those are gone, abundance ends, and we’re back to focusing on our survival in hourly/daily increments.
Ah, I see the word perplexing seems to hold different meanings here (not native speaker, but I just looked it up and what I meant is one of the meanings).
Just for clarification, it’s not a question for me as to why but just like the ‘yeah, I know, here we go’ kind of situation that is quite hopeless, as in the ending the referenced movie ‘don’t look up’ points to.
Don’t Look Up made so angry when watching it, because all of it was true. Everything the movie shows is true. I couldn’t even laugh at the jokes.
And that was just round 1. We’re currently in round 2 of stupidity
Especially the ‘wait, we can mine that asteroid’ part and then the running away on failure.
We’re crashing out. It’s common knowledge at this point.
If it’s common knowledge, asking provocatively, how could you let this happen?
(rhetorical, too, because divide & conquer worked really well)
Millennial here.
What’s one more recession, war in the Middle East, or El Nino to me? They’re like old friends at this point.
I thought we were already in the super el nino, are we getting an el nino of an el nino now?
Off topic but web sites really need to have a dark mode toggle. I get that there are extensions …
