> What if the future will be worse than the past? There's no point worrying about the future. All we have is the present. All the wise sages of old have repeat

> What if the future will be worse than the past? There's no point worrying about the future. All we have is the present. All the wise sages of old have repeatedly said the same thing. > What if "AI" is a pipe dream? When it evolves to strong AI and becomes sentient enough it will be the atomic bomb 2.0, only much more powerful and deadly. > What if "Democracy" is an illusion of manufactured consent to serve the interests of the powerful few? If 'Democracy' is voting now and then and casting a small vote every few months, this is not democracy. See: The Tyranny of the Majority. > What if human biodiversity exists and is partially responsible for differential development? Not sure what you mean? Diversity in humans has always been a thing. > What if the mitigation of Covid was worse than the disease? What if the disease was allowed to run rampant? > What if the world will never be able to find an alternative energy source as cheap and dense as fossil hydrocarbons? Our only hope is a Dyson sphere around the sun where we harvest the energy of the sun much more efficiently and use it to explore space. > What if ad-based internet, pointless consumerism, and the casinofication of finance is destroying our society? There are ways to thwart surveillance tech with AD blockers. There's nothing 'pointless' about consumerism if our basic needs are met. Pointless fast fashion and keeping up the the jones is generally considered bad. > What if our leaders problem solving thought processes put dogma above evidence of effectiveness even when not serving special interests? Nothing new here. Politicians are gonna politician. > What was the point of nationalism 100+ years if we now support open borders and globalisation? We need isolationism. This means diversity. I don't want to live in a homogeneous world with single currency, single language etc > What if even educated people are losing the ability to think critically and see things in terms of graydients rather than black and white polarities? A mark of true intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing beliefs/dogmas in your head and believe them both. > What will hold nations together when the going gets tough and we reach the limits of growth? Solidarity, patriotism, huge amounts of cooperation. > What if the rate of technological innovation has slowed in the absence of new physics? There doesn't need to be more innovation in physics for more innovation, we simply build on the current physics. > What if capitalism is failing as an efficient rationing mechanism and resulting in great waste of human and material resources? Socialism works here, but not always. Socialism as an extreme is generally considered bad. Socialism can sometimes be an escape hatch for capitalism getting out of hand. > What if nations have been captured by a loosely organised multinational high finance cartel that dictates policy to democratic government through the media and think tanks and academia? That's how it always played out. This is why the mega rich buy media companies. To lobby and implement their own agendas. Musk & Twitter. Bezos' Washington Post. > What will become of us when this parasite runs out of fresh blood to suck? What parasite?