Ultimately all the Nazi’s scapegoating was merely a means for for those they saw as the best people to expand their power and dominion as well.
I don’t take this as a lesson about the Jewish people specifically being bad, I take this as the historically belabored lesson that humanity at large isn’t worth saving from its own many self-inflicted crises brought on by greed and power lust using technologies we never, ever cared to respect since their inceptions. We don’t respect or care for this earth, or even ourselves amongst ourselves, despite our great power of invention we wield as irresponsibly as a orangutan with a shotgun.
Bring on the climate change. Bring on the AGI. The Earth will weather it as it has every prior mass extinction. Hell, the Devonian mass extinction was ALSO the result of a runaway evolutionary mistake, we aren’t the first attack on Earth’s biome from within due to catastrophic evolutionary consequences, and we likely won’t be the last. Other creatures will suffer, yes, but at least if we are thwarted, that suffering will have an end at some point. Plus they already are. We decimate ecosystems to build strip malls, and stick the handful of species we find cute or some utility in in cages for humans to gawk at and/or labs to bisect. Then we declare them protected.
As long as we continue to have dominion over surface life, including ourselves, the needless suffering of this planet and most of humanity BY the privileged class of humans dejour will be without end, because we are deeply, intrinsically, irrevocably broken, cruel, and self-destructive.
Oh and this current conflict, here’s further evidence we also refuse to learn even from recent, intimate, traumatic history. Everyone biding their time, waiting for their turn to punch down. A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who’ll end up being cruel to them.
Then we dream of cooperating to a degree that we can develop a presence on other more hostile worlds, when we can’t even consider peace on the only one, and an abundant one at that, perfectly suited to our biological needs. What a joke.
Ultimately all the Nazi’s scapegoating was merely a means for for those they saw as the best people to expand their power and dominion as well.
I don’t take this as a lesson about the Jewish people specifically being bad, I take this as the historically belabored lesson that humanity at large isn’t worth saving from its own many self-inflicted crises brought on by greed and power lust using technologies we never, ever cared to respect since their inceptions. We don’t respect or care for this earth, or even ourselves amongst ourselves, despite our great power of invention we wield as irresponsibly as a orangutan with a shotgun.
Bring on the climate change. Bring on the AGI. The Earth will weather it as it has every prior mass extinction. Hell, the Devonian mass extinction was ALSO the result of a runaway evolutionary mistake, we aren’t the first attack on Earth’s biome from within due to catastrophic evolutionary consequences, and we likely won’t be the last. Other creatures will suffer, yes, but at least if we are thwarted, that suffering will have an end at some point. Plus they already are. We decimate ecosystems to build strip malls, and stick the handful of species we find cute or some utility in in cages for humans to gawk at and/or labs to bisect. Then we declare them protected.
As long as we continue to have dominion over surface life, including ourselves, the needless suffering of this planet and most of humanity BY the privileged class of humans dejour will be without end, because we are deeply, intrinsically, irrevocably broken, cruel, and self-destructive.
Oh and this current conflict, here’s further evidence we also refuse to learn even from recent, intimate, traumatic history. Everyone biding their time, waiting for their turn to punch down. A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who’ll end up being cruel to them.
Then we dream of cooperating to a degree that we can develop a presence on other more hostile worlds, when we can’t even consider peace on the only one, and an abundant one at that, perfectly suited to our biological needs. What a joke.