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We're all going extinct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth#Red_giant_stage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth#Red_giant_stag... https:/

We're all going extinct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth#Red_giant_stage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth#Red_giant_stag... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#Far_future_and_ultimate_fate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#Far... (Though, if you want, you could argue a red sun is somehow a communist plot.)

graycat 8y ago
There can be a lot of differences between now and then. I mentioned the main point -- not being alone. There's more: IIRC "The fundamental problem in life is getting security in the face of the anxiety from our realization that alone we are vulnerable to the hostile forces of nature and society.". The three top recommended solutions are "love of spouse, love of God, and membership in groups.". You don't want to consider the last alternative. E. Fromm, The Art of Loving.
- apocalypstyx 8y ago
  You can have a spouse(s), god(s), and/or a group without playing existential kick the can. But that's juts me arguing against biological compulsions that have existed since gendered species arose in the soup in those bygone eons of prehistoric Earth. [Ultimately futile, yes. But no more so than anything else.] Evolution functions through drives, not the satisfaction of them. If it did, Warren Buffett and Bills Gates would've (likely) said 'yeah, this a enough money' by some point before, people wouldn't stuff themselves (raises hand) with terrible so-called food items loaded with sugar and salt to the point we wanna puke, tromping over one another at Black Friday sales, etc. And in the same (I would say) every reason people come up with for this (or anything else) is the anxiety induced justification for a priori desire(s) we can neither control, nor satisfy. However, perhaps, we shouldn't look down on this, it may be the very inability to admit to such, as well as the need, to justify it, that truly separates humans from (most) other species. But I doubt they're gonna (ultimately) solve the problem, either. Perhaps we could medicate into oblivion. But, outside of that, fundamental anxiety is (probably) welded into the human species. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqDJJcJAOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqDJJcJAOg https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2062990-we-don-t-really-want-to-get-what-we-think-that https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2062990-we-don-t-really-wan...

graycat 8y ago

There can be a lot of differences between now and then. I mentioned the main point -- not being alone. There's more: IIRC "The fundamental problem in life is getting security in the face of the anxiety from our realization that alone we are vulnerable to the hostile forces of nature and society.". The three top recommended solutions are "love of spouse, love of God, and membership in groups.". You don't want to consider the last alternative. E. Fromm, The Art of Loving.

apocalypstyx 8y ago
You can have a spouse(s), god(s), and/or a group without playing existential kick the can. But that's juts me arguing against biological compulsions that have existed since gendered species arose in the soup in those bygone eons of prehistoric Earth. [Ultimately futile, yes. But no more so than anything else.] Evolution functions through drives, not the satisfaction of them. If it did, Warren Buffett and Bills Gates would've (likely) said 'yeah, this a enough money' by some point before, people wouldn't stuff themselves (raises hand) with terrible so-called food items loaded with sugar and salt to the point we wanna puke, tromping over one another at Black Friday sales, etc. And in the same (I would say) every reason people come up with for this (or anything else) is the anxiety induced justification for a priori desire(s) we can neither control, nor satisfy. However, perhaps, we shouldn't look down on this, it may be the very inability to admit to such, as well as the need, to justify it, that truly separates humans from (most) other species. But I doubt they're gonna (ultimately) solve the problem, either. Perhaps we could medicate into oblivion. But, outside of that, fundamental anxiety is (probably) welded into the human species. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqDJJcJAOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqDJJcJAOg https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2062990-we-don-t-really-want-to-get-what-we-think-that https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2062990-we-don-t-really-wan...