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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7260 on: 15/11/2019 12:58:31 »
Those SF are right in another way too. If we meet other civilization in a 'expansion' they either will be as us, and so see us as competitors, or look at us as locust, as we run away from our actions, refusing responsibility.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7261 on: 15/11/2019 13:01:38 »
So much for the 'crown of existence'.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7262 on: 15/11/2019 13:05:17 »
Hey, don't worry
The way it has evolved so far it seems we're staying here :)
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7263 on: 15/11/2019 13:08:13 »
And yes, all Sf in vain, we need to clean this up. We will not get FTL tomorrow, and the chances for meeting another civilization lies very far away in a possible future. But it won't be possible if you can't change.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7264 on: 15/11/2019 13:10:06 »
From the viewpoint of a civilization of caretakers it would be very bad news meeting our type of civilization.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7265 on: 15/11/2019 18:34:45 »
That's another problem we have. Not having time.
Inequality and greed

So you better speed up, the competition is fierce, right?
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7266 on: 15/11/2019 18:36:54 »
The funny thing is that we have a really good life in reach. But we're too scared to change, aren't we? It's better to wok yourself to death raising the GDP, ad infinitum. Because there is no end to that one.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7267 on: 15/11/2019 18:38:41 »
And no, it's not us chickens, it's 'laws'.
And if you believe that I happen to have another , much nicer, bridge for sale.
Yep, it can be yours.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7268 on: 15/11/2019 18:47:44 »
What a system like this does is to promote those that 'succeed'. Like a maze formed for a special agenda, to place the wrong kind of people at places where you can't do anything about it.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7269 on: 15/11/2019 18:51:07 »
Not saying that everything must be wrong with it, but generally speaking, it actually is :)
Take a look at your country's 'geopolitics' for example.

Then tell me how much of that meets fairness and equality.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7270 on: 15/11/2019 18:52:04 »
The funniest thing is that all of this becomes a mindgame
You being a white mouse running a maze.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7271 on: 15/11/2019 18:52:44 »
Nobody is excused here
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7272 on: 15/11/2019 19:05:40 »
Start with being satisfied with one kid of your own. And make sure for it to know that it's loved. Put it in a good school, where teachers are allowed to teach. Give the kid a chance to learn. Then tell him or her that what is needed is to stop looking at others to instead  find out who he, or she, is. don't give all answers, make it questions to think about.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7273 on: 15/11/2019 19:07:28 »
That would be a start to something better.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #7274 on: 15/11/2019 19:09:15 »
Instead of making kids with two or three partners, not having time. That f*s a kids life up.
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« Reply #7275 on: 15/11/2019 19:09:43 »
I'm sure you have other examples of that.
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« Reply #7276 on: 15/11/2019 19:12:57 »
Sure were animals, but we also have intelligence, and compassion. We learn, create histories, and somehow even under this system create better environments than what we had before. Well, hopefully so :)
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« Reply #7277 on: 15/11/2019 19:13:37 »
It is a contradiction, isn't it
We're good at that
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« Reply #7278 on: 15/11/2019 19:23:53 »
It's evolution, isn't it?

But it's becoming a dead end. We need to change this mindgame to something that fits the place where we live. To do it we will need equality. Technology is not a equivalence to equality though. It's not a necessity, fairness is, technology is not.  Sharing is, hoarding is not.
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« Reply #7279 on: 15/11/2019 19:24:34 »
Terrible thoughts, aren't they :)
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