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Instead of building the future together, let's all panic and stock up on canned food.
by iterationx 16y ago
Instead of building the future together, let's all panic and stock up on canned food.
- knieveltech 16y agoGiven humanity's track record for collaboratively solving problems that didn't involve bombing the fuck out of someone you'll forgive me if stash a few cases of MRE's as a hedge.
- febeling 16y agoIf you consider the rebuilding of germany after ww2 or the case of japan rising from feudalism to highest level of technology in short time, I don't see why one should be that pessimistic.
- Alex3917 16y agoIf the apocalypse comes, deal with it.
- jerf 16y agoGo ahead and stash those MREs, disaster preparation is a good idea anyhow and they do happen. But look about at the world over the past thousand years and tell me how terrible our track record is again. Our track record is not demonstrated by how many problems we think we have today, but how many problems we've dispatched. How much time are you planning on spending worrying about whether or not you'll be invaded by barbarians today? And I mean really honestly worrying about it, not striking a pose as a social signal about how fashionably pessimistic you are. There's been a lot of progress; it only feels like it doesn't because as you climb the Maslow hierarchy your wealth allows a net larger number of problems to emerge. But they are, ultimately, lesser problems. A key component of staying sane in the modern world is to remember this.
- ajaxian 16y ago> How much time are you planning on spending worrying about whether or not you'll be invaded by barbarians today? That seems to be a primary concern of the Arizona state legislature: http://www.google.com/search?q=arizona+sb+1070 http://www.google.com/search?q=arizona+sb+1070