Humans are the dumbest and most savage animals on the planet. We're facing 3 existential threats: diseases๐ท, climate mayhem, and the rise of fascism, again. This will not end well for anyone ๐
Humans are the dumbest and most savage animals on the planet. We're facing 3 existential threats: diseases๐ท, climate mayhem, and the rise of fascism, again. This will not end well for anyone ๐
My great fear is that human beings often seek the โsuretyโ authoritarians promise (but never deliver) when shit hits the fan. With so many existential threats coming, I feel that democracy will be an early casualty. If it is, all hope for human survival is lost. Catastrophe is baked into the fascist brand because truth becomes a mutable concept.
I don't know if I worry democracy will be lost so much as set back a couple years (or centuries). We're obviously on course for some sort of cataclysm. The question is its severity and its duration. My hope is that we get our shit together enough to at least offset some of the damage from whatever's coming.
If it were just the US, I would be less pessimistic. These crisis are global and will be worse in other places. When rising waters causes mass migration, rise of disease, food scarcity, economic breakdown, etc, on a global scale, democracy cannot stand. Higher thinking and the willingness to accept the rule of law requires a modicum of social stability. When civilization is tossed into a blender, Mad Max is going to seem like a Disney movie compared to most peopleโs lives. And yes, Iโm available to entertain at parties.
This is why the fascists have been planning this for at least 50 years. If not longer. The human species gets culled once every hundred years. The 1918 pandemic. Covid emerging in late 2019. Totally predictable. Our climate models fell woefully short on the predicting actual speed of our climate's breakdown. Unsurprising, because there were too many unknown unknowns.
Humans are the dumbest and most savage animals on the planet. We're facing 3 existential threats: diseases๐ท, climate mayhem, and the rise of fascism, again. This will not end well for anyone ๐
My great fear is that human beings often seek the โsuretyโ authoritarians promise (but never deliver) when shit hits the fan. With so many existential threats coming, I feel that democracy will be an early casualty. If it is, all hope for human survival is lost. Catastrophe is baked into the fascist brand because truth becomes a mutable concept.
I don't know if I worry democracy will be lost so much as set back a couple years (or centuries). We're obviously on course for some sort of cataclysm. The question is its severity and its duration. My hope is that we get our shit together enough to at least offset some of the damage from whatever's coming.
If it were just the US, I would be less pessimistic. These crisis are global and will be worse in other places. When rising waters causes mass migration, rise of disease, food scarcity, economic breakdown, etc, on a global scale, democracy cannot stand. Higher thinking and the willingness to accept the rule of law requires a modicum of social stability. When civilization is tossed into a blender, Mad Max is going to seem like a Disney movie compared to most peopleโs lives. And yes, Iโm available to entertain at parties.
This is why the fascists have been planning this for at least 50 years. If not longer. The human species gets culled once every hundred years. The 1918 pandemic. Covid emerging in late 2019. Totally predictable. Our climate models fell woefully short on the predicting actual speed of our climate's breakdown. Unsurprising, because there were too many unknown unknowns.