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The funny thing about ends of the world is they're all so politically correct. What if an apocalypse is caused by something we're taught to believe is good? Som
by lopmotr 7y ago
The funny thing about ends of the world is they're all so politically correct. What if an apocalypse is caused by something we're taught to believe is good? Some examples:
Maybe social welfare and international aid are selectively breeding a race of humans who are unable to sustain their own lives without support of the superior but relatively shrinking productive class?
What if repeated famines were the cause of the high intelligence we have today? We stopped famines. Maybe the pressure to outsmart each other has gone too.
What if Islam continues to spread? It's a kind of mind-virus filled with techniques to keep its hosts infected (don't ask difficult questions about God, kill people who stop believing, etc.) and to spread (kill or tax people who don't believe, and when you might have killed someone in war, allow them to live if they convert to Islam). Everyone being infected might be OK if it was benign, but it's also anti-science (Predicting future outcomes is usurping the power of God who's the one who decides what will happen). This is perhaps what already happened due to Christianity in the dark ages. Took 1000 years to recover from that end of the world.
Maybe modern medicine is breeding a race of unhealthy people who depend on it for survival. Maybe we're in an arms race of humans needing ever-better medicine and medicine having to treat ever-more difficult diseases.
How can you defend against a politically incorrect end of the world? The obvious direct course of action is forbidden, which means even mentioning the possibility of those being problems is forbidden socially, which means it might blindside us. We might even welcome it coming. I can imagine future degraded people laughing at their silly ancestors wanting technology and healthcare instead of fighting enemies with their fists like a natural real man. They might ostracize tinkerers who try to build useful things instead of participating in the tribal rituals and fighting.