The world is getting better (for many) but it's also getting weirder and crazier. Both can be true. I have this hypothesis that the weirdness and craziness is

The world is getting better (for many) but it's also getting weirder and crazier. Both can be true. I have this hypothesis that the weirdness and craziness is a symptom of early stage post-scarcity. Scarcity constrains things. Without it we will just spread out across the state space of possibilities like an oil slick, doing all kinds of insane and crazy things for increasingly complex and bizarre reasons. The more resources we have the more the question ceases to be "why" and becomes "why not?" I call this the singLOLarity hypothesis. A real post-scarcity future won't look like Star Trek. It'll look a little more like Lexx. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx If we are ever visited by super-advanced aliens, they will be really weird. Maybe they really are flying around in pimped-out spaceships with multi-color neon running lights mutilating our cattle for the lulz. The question is not "why?" It's "why not?"