Chris...I vow to you now, that if it looks bleak while we're still around, space will be saved for you in the mountain compound. Trees, streams, lakes, fresh air, log cabins...one bodacious garden and sufficient animals to provide eggs and milk for cheese. (Should you have the "hunter" part of the "hunter/gatherer," you'll be on "meat" detail. I don't do "kill," as I have a regrettable tendency to name everything and get attached, but I'm not an idiot.)
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However, mankind is too stupid to survive, and too smart to become extinct. When the times come, it won't even be about money. It will only be about power and knowledge.
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I'd give that a "pearl" if it wasn't the truest, saddest thing I've ever read. I couldn't bear to see it again every time I read the "pearl" list.
I used to think I was born at a glorious time in history. People with my conditions before had two options: die...or...die. Now, we have all these wondrous medical miracles. Unfortunately we also have a glimpse into the future that our ancestors were spared. They got to have hope for a "better tomorrow." We get "oh, my god, the fuckers are actually going to try that."
I am an optimist, Chris. A hopeless, doomed optimist. I used to tell people "I'm not originally from this planet." I stopped doing it when I noticed I was getting very thoughtful facial expressions in response to that statement. OK, it was a joke, folks, if you're going to start believing it...you're scaring me. I belived people were basically good and that goodness would triumph for as long as I could. (That one scared my own children. I told them: "It's necessary for my own mental health that I continue to believe it.") Well. *sigh* I can't do that anymore. People are basically stupid and probably evil, if not through intent then through neglect.
Anyone who craves immortality - even through something as stupid and dehumanizing as that "chip upload" crap - has missed a meeting. When you get to be my age, people start dying on you. Older relatives, famous people you've always liked - how many times on this board has the death of a treasured comedian been announced lately? Eternal life? Who the hell am I going to talk to? I already know way too many people who have never owned an LP. (And more than a few who don't even know what that stands for.)
"Humanity" is doomed. Bipeds may continue to go on, but everything about them that was once both praised and prized as "human" will die.
I'm glad I won't live to see it. I pray my children don't either.