> Fashionable nihilism about the world via contrived comparisons may be fun for dramatic dinner party conversation, but as an objective means of analyzing the w

> Fashionable nihilism about the world via contrived comparisons may be fun for dramatic dinner party conversation, but as an objective means of analyzing the world, it's mostly crap. Y'know what else is mostly crap? Forgetting that things changec because of projected problems like this. Go look at any movie from the late 1960s showing the LA skyline and just look at the smog. Car manufacturers would never have attended to that problem without being forced to by publically popular legislation. There are many other examples here that have avoided "ecological hell" and post-facto "well, nothing bad happened" analyses are mostly crap because something did happen, except it gets conveniently forgotten by a culture that has the memory of a goldfish.