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It is only through technology that we have swelled so comfortably to our present populations. Arguably there are periods throughout history where technology has

It is only through technology that we have swelled so comfortably to our present populations. Arguably there are periods throughout history where technology has allowed super growth and the prosperity of artificially maintained populations (sic., Rome and aquifers) What happens when a population cannot be maintained? Collapse. Whether by resource starvation (the poorest and most vulnerable go first) or conflict (populations invest in warfare.) For students of history/lit, it may be anecdotal to know that "Odysseus" doesn't mean adventurer who goes around trying to find his way home it means "child of anger." Why was our hero named so? "For there are so many people in the world, and it makes me so very angry" (the uncle of Odysseus upon his naming.) So according to some accounts, the Trojan war and many other conflicts of those times (the "sea people"), were cataclysms instigated by excessive populations for those times in human societal (technological) evolution.

vednig 2y ago
So, are we holding off on Mutually Assured Destruction via Nuclear Warheads until our technoogy supports it or we our natural evolution progresses.
- illuminant 2y ago
  The modern states of humanity are only bound by our collective crisis. Layers of what I like to call the "onion layered shit cake," which the decent mind must cut through to penetrate the understanding of world power. Everything you know from the meme screens is lie. Well supportable, maybe polite, lie. While incompetents does explain more easily than conspiracy, I attest there is both. Let us play this out, while such recklessness is possible (and none would ever hear or understand the true reasons), an immediate crisis is those who simply don't care they are a waste of their humanity. Do not be a waste of your humanity. What more can individuals do in the contest of civilization's passing?
VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>"For there are so many people in the world, and it makes me so very angry" Where did you get that translation from? That has an entirely different meaning from the more commonly accepted ones. Here's a couple: From Robert Grave's The Greek Myths: >In the course of my life I have antagonized many princes, and I shall therefore name this grandson Odysseus, meaning The Angry One, because he will be the victim of my enmities. Yet if he ever comes to Mount Parnassus to reproach me, I shall give him a share of my possessions, and assuage his anger. From Fagles's translation: >give the boy the name I tell you now. Just as I have come from afar, creating pain for many - men and women, across the good green earth - so let his name be Odysseus Sounds like he's saying "name him Odysseus because I pissed a bunch of people off" rather than "name him Odysseus because I'm pissed there's too many people on this earth".

vednig 2y ago

So, are we holding off on Mutually Assured Destruction via Nuclear Warheads until our technoogy supports it or we our natural evolution progresses.

illuminant 2y ago
The modern states of humanity are only bound by our collective crisis. Layers of what I like to call the "onion layered shit cake," which the decent mind must cut through to penetrate the understanding of world power. Everything you know from the meme screens is lie. Well supportable, maybe polite, lie. While incompetents does explain more easily than conspiracy, I attest there is both. Let us play this out, while such recklessness is possible (and none would ever hear or understand the true reasons), an immediate crisis is those who simply don't care they are a waste of their humanity. Do not be a waste of your humanity. What more can individuals do in the contest of civilization's passing?

VoodooJuJu 2y ago

>"For there are so many people in the world, and it makes me so very angry" Where did you get that translation from? That has an entirely different meaning from the more commonly accepted ones. Here's a couple: From Robert Grave's The Greek Myths: >In the course of my life I have antagonized many princes, and I shall therefore name this grandson Odysseus, meaning The Angry One, because he will be the victim of my enmities. Yet if he ever comes to Mount Parnassus to reproach me, I shall give him a share of my possessions, and assuage his anger. From Fagles's translation: >give the boy the name I tell you now. Just as I have come from afar, creating pain for many - men and women, across the good green earth - so let his name be Odysseus Sounds like he's saying "name him Odysseus because I pissed a bunch of people off" rather than "name him Odysseus because I'm pissed there's too many people on this earth".