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When did the future turn into a game of Survivor? I don't know, but the past turned into a game of Survivor roughly four billion years ago. If it hadn't, we ne
by hugh3 15y ago
When did the future turn into a game of Survivor?
I don't know, but the past turned into a game of Survivor roughly four billion years ago. If it hadn't, we never would have developed cell membranes, let alone multicellularity.
I'm not just being glib. The struggle to survive and to thrive, against members of other species or against members of your own, is a constant feature of all life across the Earth and probably throughout the universe. I don't know why people seem to think they should be immune from it.
- forensic 15y ago>I don't know why people seem to think they should be immune from it. So when social leaders sell us in childhood on the idea that the future will be a disease free high-tech utopia, they really mean it will be that for an elite 20% and the rest of us can go die. Social Darwinism is delightful.
- danssig 15y agoWow, the "survival of the fittest" argument, and on hacker news of all places. The entire point of civilization is to escape "survival of the fittest". Do you know what we call people who still live by those rules? Uncivilized.