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I think it’s kind of beautiful that we all have our limited times to make an impact. We bring our perspectives and use our context to try to move civilization t
by davemp 5y ago
I think it’s kind of beautiful that we all have our limited times to make an impact. We bring our perspectives and use our context to try to move civilization to a more optimal place. Then once we’ve spent all our ideas our perspectives can afford, we give way to the next group of minds. Like an old oak falling under the weight of snow opens room in the canopy for new growth and the decomposing wood provides nutrients for saplings; the absence of old arguments invite new ideas and the theory we leave gives the building blocks.
- focus2020 5y agoThis i fear. People who dont like the idea of immortal enforce others to be so. I am not saying the op is of this opinion, its my obsevation.
- igorkraw 5y agoI don't know if I'd call it beautiful or desirable over a world where we live forever and develop robust mechanisms to ensure our perspectives are forced to change and adapt instead of calcifying and power cannot entrench itself, but I agree that I can appreciate the fact that although people like Dr. Cox and Hans Rosling die, so do tyrants and those irrationally stubborn
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