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Imagine if I told you there was an asteroid coming for Earth, and it's large enough that nothing can be done about it. Go back to your life. Relax. Don't think

• whiddershins 4y ago
  Two points: Predicting an asteroid just uses some physics. It’s fairly deterministic. You are predicting the outcome of fantastically complex systems - political, climatological, economic, social, technological … it’s not a good analogy because predicting the future on those dimensions has been historically next to impossible. But even if I accepted your analogy: What I’m saying is more like “there’s an asteroid headed straight for the earth. A bunch of people are working really hard to deal with it, blow it up, knock it off course, etc. Some are optimistic, some pessimistic. Regardless, if you aren’t part of that team, your role is to do YOU as best you can, and hope they are successful in fending off the apocalypse. Otherwise you create a 100% certainty of massive suffering in yourself and likely those around you as well. At best you fail to realize your personal potential. So it is basically a self fulfilling prophecy.”