Do you still have faith in humanity?
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Never had. How can you have faith in a species which puts most effort towards advancing weapons to destroy as much as possible of it’s own species.
Humanity? Sure.
Human institutions? Less and less.
The humans worth placing your faith in are not the ones calling the shots.
Humanity under capitalism is doomed. The only way we survive is if this AI bubble pops and burns capitalism to the ground with it.
One can hope.
Humanity’s potential…yes.
Humanity’s actuality…no.
Absolutely! Turmoil comes in waves, and after each major challenge, we come out a little better than we were.
We’ve survived worse than this and eventually the world will look back at what was happening now and think, “Sure am glad we aren’t like THAT anymore!”
Hope is a valuable thing, and the feeling of having none isn’t something I would wish on anyone. Hold onto your hope tightly.
Weird. You saying that made me think.
It doesn’t feel like hope. It feels like cold inevitability or statistical probability. Like, some days you hit all green lights, other days they’re all red, but at the end of the day, you still did the same shit you do every day.
Everything changes, but somehow it’s all the same.
Nah.
The good part is that I won’t be around much longer to see it all go to hell in a handbasket.
The bad part is that my kids will.
Sorry about that, kids, I honestly did the best I could.
Technically you could have not had kids. But I get it, I’m in the same boat!
In my defense it was the start of a new millennium, Internet seemed like it would democratize knowledge access and speed up development of sustainable technologies in all fields. Cold war was behind us, so it seemed like history was done and we could enjoy some stability after a bloody XX century.
But yeah, I should have known better.
Yes
Yes.
We haven’t made it this far just by sheer luck.
Humanity isn’t the problem, it’s the growing concentration of power
I resent how this question implies I ever had faith in humanity.
Why would I put my faith in humanity, the most violent and destructive creature in the animal kingdom? There is an ideal beyond the survival animal we are, an imagination of how much better we could be. That’s what I put my faith in. That’s the kind of world I want to work toward.
That sounds like having faith in humanity with extra steps. I’m also gonna push back on that “most violent and destructive” part. We’re capable of more destruction than any other species, but we are also the only species capable of showing restraint. We’ve gone 80 years without using a nuclear bomb in war. Your cat would launch a nuke to kill a mouse.
Humanity is too broad a grouping
No.
idk…
just an example: I never really had any of my peers stand up for me when I get bullied in school… I doubt that in the adult world, others are gonna step in since its even more dangerous than k-12 so people are just gonna be bystanders while I get beaten in broad daylight (hypothetical, haven’t actually been assulted as an adult yet)…
maybe if people stood up to bullies more, I’d have more faith, but as of now, I feel so alone… even family feels very cold to me… but I feel even more scared to leave and be alone out in the world… like a “the enemy you know” type of thing…
like its a “kill or be killed” type of world
-Philly, PA, USA
People from other places might feel differently
I don’t think I ever had
