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Things will keep changing forever. I don't know why people are afraid of permanent oppression. We only know of around 10k years of society history, in a planet
by namaria 3y ago
Things will keep changing forever. I don't know why people are afraid of permanent oppression. We only know of around 10k years of society history, in a planet that has had intelligent apes for 100k years, complex ecosystems for 4b years. Even if we vanish in the next century, the overwhelming chances are that a) uncountable complex ecosystems exist right now; b) uncountable intelligent species exist right now; c) uncountable oppressive and uncountable liberal systems exist right now; d) uncountable intelligent species and complex ecosystems will vanish and emerge over the billions of years ahead.
We get too attached to what we see around us, while Hubble and JW have shown we are utterly insignificant in both time and space.
- johnnyworker 3y agoCountless of other things likely existing doesn't discount any of them. If, to just put it like that, people in all those other liberal and oppressive systems have nothing else to say than "meh, there are countless of other systems", what makes them so significant? I see the how it is and what we rationalize it as, I see the trends and I'm not impressed. That others might do worse or better is completely irrelevant to me, that's to their shame or credit.
- namaria 3y agoThere's only shame because there's pride. Feel ways about the world you know, it's like feeling good or bad about how the soap bubble you blow come out.