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This kind of discourse doesn't make depressed because of its content, but because of how BORING it can quickly become. It's a mix of oversimplification and sel
by camillomiller 5y ago
This kind of discourse doesn't make depressed because of its content, but because of how BORING it can quickly become.
It's a mix of oversimplification and self-entitlement that I can't do but find irrelevant. The more recent updates also prove how little this person actually knows about key topics like the economics of the energy market.
Why is it so high up on Hackernews?
- 01100011 5y agoDoom sells. Always has. It seems to be all the rage these days too. Maybe it's our continually declining testosterone changing our attitude towards monumental but surmountable problems like climate change, resource conflicts, culture wars, wealth gaps, etc. I don't know. It's really sad to see young people so hopeless when right now their biggest enemies are their minds. The system won't have to kill us if it convinces us to kill ourselves first. Hopelessness and small mindedness will doom us all if we're not careful.
- defterGoose 5y agoIt's on everyone. Young people are largely depressed because the older people in power are basically saying [incoming oversimplification] "you're wrong about the science and even if you're right about the science there's nothing for us to gain from radically forced change to the economy". The old people are correct that doom and gloom aren't the best motivator, and the young people are correct that we're destroying their birthright.
- NoGravitas 5y agoNote: I'm old. All of those monumental-but-surmountable problems can be surmounted with massive, unprofitable collective effort. All the evidence of my lifetime and my parents' says that our society as it exists now can only coordinate collective effort if it is profitable. ∴ those problems will not be solved.