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we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now. Nope. Not even close. We survived the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam War protests. For all our onli
by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now.
Nope. Not even close. We survived the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam War protests. For all our online angst and whining, we're not even 1/10th as far toward the tipping point as we were back then.
- sodafountan 10y agoNot to mention a Civil War, World War II and the Cold War. I think we'll all be alright.
- infinite8s 10y agoThose were all human-created events. What happens when we have a super-volcano eruption and the world has another mini-ice age, and there are famines across the globe? Or the coastal flooding that is predicted to happen by 2050 if we continue current warming trends. We can't just force nature to give up through a superior show of force (unlike winning a war).
- vkou 10y agoCoastal flooding would largely be economic damage - mostly distributed to a small segment of the population, not societal collapse. Food shortages caused by climate change, on the other hand...
- mschaef 10y agoBy taking such a sweeping view, you're glossing over a lot of individual suffering. Even if we're better off now than prior to WW2, the >50MM casualties of that war would probably disagree.
- disordinary 10y agoThe difference is that those protests were steps in the right direction, what we're seeing now is a step backwards.