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It sounds like you’re making excuses for the world as it is. The OP is right though. These aren’t things we have to live with just because Steven Pinker said t
by glenda 6y ago
It sounds like you’re making excuses for the world as it is. The OP is right though.
These aren’t things we have to live with just because Steven Pinker said the world is better off now than before... We are in control of our environment to a certain extent and have the capability of transforming it into something other than an isle of cheap meats under florescent lighting. We are capable of ending systemic violence and homelessness, since they are things we collectively allow to exist each day. We can get rid of cars and build more beautiful cities!
- Diederich 6y agoThe higher one climbs on a mountain, the further one can see. I think we're capable of seeing how much better we can make things today primarily because of how high we've climbed so far.
- komali2 6y agoWell, we're trying, aren't we? Do we give up because we aren't perfect yet and instead start trying to end the species? I'm not sure the objective of fatalist arguments. "We don't deserve to be ok" ?like, it's nearly impossible to get anything done when not ok (aka depressed). Fatalism will hurt efforts, not help, based on personal experience.
- ekianjo 6y ago> We can get rid of cars and build more beautiful cities! We don't have cars because we love driving and waste hours in traffic or something. They have a purpose and solve problems.
- Ma8ee 6y agoYes, but most of those problems have other, less wasteful solutions. We don’t have to live sprawled out far away from our workplaces, and we don’t each and every one need to move our own 1500 kg vehicle to get somewhere in urban areas.
- ekianjo 6y ago> We don’t have to live sprawled out far away from our workplaces, So I am guessing you are suggesting we all live in dormitories just next to factories/offices, and have no more than 5 square meter per person because anything more than that is absolutely unnecessary to live.
- justforyou 6y agoThe notion of vehicles ro travel distances is not the problem. Engineering said vehicles as mechanically inefficient depreciating status symbols is the problem.
- Ma8ee 6y agoIt certainly is. Even if the cars were cheap and electrical, they would still be noisy (road noise), dangerous (mostly to pedestrians and bicyclists) and use up ridiculous amount of real estate for streets and parking that should be used for better things.