The Existential Threat of the Existential Threat
Posted by freedomforall 2 days, 2 hours ago to Philosophy
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"Climate change is an existential threat.
Misinformation is an existential threat.
Inequality is an existential threat.
The next pandemic is an existential threat.
Our democracy is facing an existential threat.
And everyone must be prepared for each of them and prepared to do anything to stop them.
That’s the current line, at least – the line that is driving global society at all levels just up to the edge of sanity and cohesion.
And that’s on purpose, because it’s much easier to push someone over the edge when they are already standing next to it.
Each of these false threats are being intentionally inflicted, becoming comorbidities on an already weakened body politic, making it even more vulnerable to its destruction and its eventual death."
"Climate change is an existential threat.
Misinformation is an existential threat.
Inequality is an existential threat.
The next pandemic is an existential threat.
Our democracy is facing an existential threat.
And everyone must be prepared for each of them and prepared to do anything to stop them.
That’s the current line, at least – the line that is driving global society at all levels just up to the edge of sanity and cohesion.
And that’s on purpose, because it’s much easier to push someone over the edge when they are already standing next to it.
Each of these false threats are being intentionally inflicted, becoming comorbidities on an already weakened body politic, making it even more vulnerable to its destruction and its eventual death."
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"Nothing is more frustrating than the obvious which everyone refuses to see? Ayn Rand
For that you may be called a racist if anyone with common sense would give a flip about their vapid nonsense anymore.
All you did was make me think of a zombie apocalypse and what I heard some tinhorn politician said on TV about one of those about a decade or more ago.
Sorry I can't recall the who, the where or the why.
All I can recall is the dude on some news show so seriously facing the camera to say, "The zombie apocalypse is not an if but a when."
Me dino mocked that idiot with unpitying hard laughter like I rarely ever had before.
Must admit I've found some few zombie movies to be very entertaining. Maybe when younger I shoulda run for office.
My credentials woulda been simple~~I can tell the difference between fiction and realty. And so can me dino.
Both trigger an Emotional, Fear Response.
They also SHUT DOWN any conversation from the other side.
The latter has been mostly defeated as the common reply is "I don't care, move on!".
The former is about to have it's day in the sunlight.
Because Elon was right again. Population IMPLOSION is our ONLY Existential threat.
In a complex system, wild changes like the number of qualified people to do 1 thing right... Will create EMERGENT situations that will gob smack the best of us.
China is now estimated to be MAYBE 500mln to 700mln people. Post pandemic. They've been lying about their population to seem bigger and more powerful than they are. And they are suffering the SAME KIND of Excess Deaths most countries are, after the vaccines...
30% of women will soon NEVER Marry and NEVER have children. Most of the 70% that will have children, will NOT have 2. Except for the least educated and least desirable.
Guys no longer want Marriage. it's risks are too high. And children are a nightmare, especially when she leaves for something "better" or "more fun". So, the healthiest males will NOT be having children, they will be at the gym.
THIS is our existential threat. At 30% this is a HUGE decrease in future population. As we drop off this cliff, everything will get harder for everyone. And this may become a self-perpetuating cycle.
Join the groups preserving ideas and basic skills in farming (Alan Savory, etc). Learn how to make your own food, raise cattle, etc. It will be your only protection.
We are about to suffer the largest LOSS OF REASON TO LIVE in human history.
From 1984 (happened recently). To Brave New World... All in my lifetime! (Where's my Soma? Just 1 gram and you won't give a Damn)
Are many necessary jobs now done with machines that require less human employees, not more?
Were the young people in the 1950-1960's more willing to work and produce?
Are there so many more vital jobs now than there were in that era that we need twice the number of workers now?
Is it that half the work force now is women (and wimps) that can't (or won't) do the hard work?
Do we really need millions more workers to care for the elderly who have no families to care for them now?
Is a higher population really only needed to be consumers of the crap that keeps parasites wealthy?
I don't know the answers to these questions, but I'd like to understand why the US can't be a success
with half the current population again. Until then, I don't see this as any threat.
Gave more brainwashing to the kids.
We have more cars, more roads, more buildings.
We have more military.
But we have more useless government bottom feeders. Far more corruption.
And it is the specialization of labor that will hurt the most. A farmer was valuable because he was a JACK of all trades. From economics, to labor, to small engine repair, making a still, caring for animals, caring for the land, building irrigation systems.
Show me a modern man, who is not a farmer that has those skills... BELOW the age of 50? Good luck.
As the number of Cellphones sold cuts in half, prices will continue to double. Our standard of living will drop. Mark my words. And I can't say it will be good or bad.
But I don't see that a lower population is a problem; instead it may be one solution
if done naturally, and assuming that the decline is reversed naturally.
On standard of living, does a return to one stay at home parent and a less extravagant
(but still workable) house size really a lower standard of living?
imo, that's only in the mind of the person who is an addicted, brainwashed consumer,
enslaved by debt service to the banking cartel (for housing and useless education)
and to the government taxation of housing.
How much of the current 'standard of living' is for useful necessity and how much is
for uneconomic rubbish? How much more useful is a $1,200 new cellphone compared
to a cellphone that is 3 years old (that today can be purchased for $200)?
I have thought for a quarter century that people would be better off with deflation
to actual utility value (and products that last and can be repaired) than never ending
inflation (and false expansion of the throw-away economy.)
The problem is that it is NOT 100% natural.
Globalism produced the lowest possible prices across the board.
Yes, people have "things" without purpose.
Japan will collapse as a nation in 2 more generations (40-60 years). They are giving away houses for free!
I would rather have my society collapse from a lack of people than survive from excess immigration of the kind we were being offered. Values matter.
The other side, which we cannot see... Is Sci-Fi World. We will find out in our life times. This is the breakthrough type society where people don't have to work, but can find purpose doing what they want. Where the AI is benevolent and redesigns things to be safer, easier and giving us plenty to do, that gives us purpose. Plenty of challenges NOT involving spending money, and seeking dopamine online.
When I retire, soon enough, I will be getting rid of my cellphone. I will switch from Windows to Linux (I develop Windows software for now). I will likely give my time to projects that mean something to me, and set some personal goals at the gym. Spend more time in the community... Building the community.
Unless the goal of having/raising a family with a male husband is again a more desirable goal for women than fake hair,
fake eyelashes, fake nails, fake breasts, and tattoos, the society will have great difficulty restoring a real high 'standard'
of living. No one deserves to be punished by law for making bad decisions about their personal life, but there must be
some way to encourage the return to traditional roles that result in raising more rational human beings with goals that
are good for their personal success while also contributing to a desirable society.
Better to have savings with a purpose, i.e., retirement independence; savings that also provide funding to the
breakthroughs that improve quality of life (via the SCi-Fi world you mention.)
Take away banking's free credit creation (and bailouts) and force them to do productive work in order to profit.
The banking cartel has been the actual existential threat to individual liberty for at least 112 years in America
(and for centuries elsewhere.)
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