Have we already passed the tipping point? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Has the system finally cracked? Have the wealthy and powerful simply taken so much leaving the rest of us grasping at our very survival, easily manipulated into turning against other groups and even each other in an attempt to make sense of it all? Is society destined to destroy itself or descend into eternal servitude to our masters? How do we get out of this spiral of madness?

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

We're humans. The end is always near, we've spent the last dozen eons or more basically failing upwards and constantly surviving the disasters we subject ourselves to. We're the funniest act this side of the Milky Way, and it's not going to stop just because we're starting to notice what a mess we are.

[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All of history was a shitshow. There was not one century this side of the invention of agriculture where we didn't commit war crimes. Hell, it took us thousands of years to come up with the idea of war crimes, the very idea that killing and enslaving everyone and salting their earth might not be super cool.

We suck, but it has worked out so far. Humanity is like cockroaches. We'll manage. Badly, suffering, but we'll manage.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Try to see humans the way elephants see us. We're just these silly little fellas, you know?

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

So there's no hope that we collectively decide that we need to get out of this together?

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

If you want the world to be some kind of way, your best hope is to be that kind of way and hope it catches on. Get yourself to a better place. If you're keeping company with people who aren't onboard with that, it will hold you back.

[-] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

I don't live in that world. I have too many issues for any of that to work, but even if that weren't the case I probably couldn't travel to wherever would be better for me.

[-] Nico_198X@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Oh heavens, no.

Just listen to @Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world

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