MercurySunrise

I disagree that it was a good run. There have been great people, great ideas... but they'll all get washed away to nothing in the deluge of those who are empty and careless. I think that's really what bothers me the most. It's not that there are so many terribly stupid people. It's that the intelligent people are so exceedingly rare that they cease to matter within the masses. Actually, maybe that is truly the problem. Intelligence inequality. If we were all stupid or all smart, I feel that everything would be less tragic. If we were all stupid, I and others wouldn't be intelligent enough to experience the differential that causes suffering. If we were all smart, climate change wouldn't even be an issue. There are people who do want to help, who do want better. Few can hear. Most can't even understand when they do. That is unfortunately the nature of being alternative. Perhaps eventually such won't be alternative. Only time can truly tell. Perhaps being human will be something to be proud of... however, I sincerely doubt it. The death we have caused just because we could, within my lifetime let alone further, is basically unforgivable. Our current global oligarchs make Hitler look like a bitch. The devastation that has ensued in the last half century and what's coming in the near future is beyond atrocious. The struggle that so many people live every single day, the torture that so many species are actively experiencing, we humans have turned our planet into a literal hell. Maybe something will miraculously break the societal bubble, people will realize how wrong everything has become, and we'll have a sudden burst of sociological evolution. Many are trying! There's just so many more that aren't. In fact, the ones that are most against those trying are the ones with the most power in our world. Until that changes, the odds against us all do seem insurmountable.

I've officially said my goodbyes. It's absolutely fucked over there. This is just one of many serious problems with Reddit. The CEO is tanking it harder than Musk tanked Twitter. He's musk'd it.

My only wish is that people had the ability to care and therefore "wake up". Outside of 0.2% of the global population, they don't and they won't. Our brains are, overall and by mass majority, as dead as the reef is about to be.

Society is a really shitty simulation made by psychotic sadists. No "hacking" was necessarily required. We all agreed to it by doing nothing to actually stop it. Some people just agree more fervently than others. Can definitely be argued as a sort of stockholm syndrome.

I agree! Especially here in the US. Solarpunk has gigantic potential in the Americas overall. I've got big travel plans next year I'm already saving up for but I'll definitely be finding my way to a convention somewhere in the relatively near future.

I fucking love Adam. I wondered where he went. Thanks!

Where was I to find the info on this? I'd like to go if another is held.

Update: I found the link for it at the bottom of the article. It's a german event, also.

I agree. They're not intrinsically related, there is a tiny overlap due to a schism in transhumanist thought. I consider myself a natural transhumanist. Usual transhumanism is entirely cyberpunk territory.

Finally. Jesus fucking christ, took them long enough to do something useful with these sites.

I'm not vegan but I agree with all of this. Industrialization was the most stupid and evil thing mankind had ever done and it just gets worse and worse. Until things change, death and extinctions are imminent.

People are really inconsistent in general. Most people don't seem to have a defined moral code even when they're religious. This is a really good example of the issue, though. I've seen this too and it's hella frustrating. I don't know if there's really a solution. Capitalism encourages this phenomena though, for sure.

Plastic manufacturing and pollution hurts the entire world, including what is basically lobbyists that they let in to derail the conversation. 99% of plastic production should have ceased 10 years ago. This article made me cry (but thank you for sharing).