I dunno, if we make it, I could see this being something of a turning point for us. Will we be perfect? Oh god no. But surviving will necessitate taking ownership of the mess we’ve collectively made (even if a lot of it is done by business), cleaning it up, and learning how to avoid doing it again.
No of course not, we’ll make new cleverer mistakes that rhyme with the old ones and might even be the exact same ones just differently packaged…. But not like the SAME SAME ones
I appreciate your optimism and I have days where I share it. I do think humanity had the potential for a Star Trek future. But we might be a couple world wars away from it
For the other species’ sake let’s hope there aren’t any descendants. We had our chance and we blew it, hard.
I dunno, if we make it, I could see this being something of a turning point for us. Will we be perfect? Oh god no. But surviving will necessitate taking ownership of the mess we’ve collectively made (even if a lot of it is done by business), cleaning it up, and learning how to avoid doing it again.
Yeah humans are great at learning from their mistakes and would never ever repeat the same mistakes over and over and over.
they say as America repeats the actions of Germany leading up to WW2
No of course not, we’ll make new cleverer mistakes that rhyme with the old ones and might even be the exact same ones just differently packaged…. But not like the SAME SAME ones
Like fascism?
I appreciate your optimism and I have days where I share it. I do think humanity had the potential for a Star Trek future. But we might be a couple world wars away from it