It was meant to be 8 days and turned into nine months.
Sounds like me waiting for Hive to go to the Moon.
The astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for almost a year, are finally heading back to earth. I assume the movie is already in the making. One interesting thing to note is that despite the current geopolitical situation, one of the replacements is a Russian cosmonaut - did he have to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the same way all the sports people had to in order to keep their professional careers?
I assume no.
Par for the course.
Inconsistency is the name of the game now, and no matter what is done, people just assume that it is okay, because no one cares anymore. It is like the US government going against a legal court order to put a temporary halt on shipping people out of the country into a maximum security jail. They did it anyway - but where are the ramifications? If a citizen breaks a court order, it is a crime with heavy ramifications. When the government does it, they look to impeach the judge.
Par for the course.
We don't live in an equal legal framework and the "you can do what you want if rich enough" paradigm is being obviously held true. We also don't live in an equal financial framework, because while the average person has to pay all of their taxes and often a bit more, the average rich person has many mechanisms and loopholes available to avoid paying even their legal share, let alone what might be considered a fair share. There is zero chance of improving the wealth gap, unless improvement is considered widening it further.
Apparently - it is.
Have you ever considered that while there might be some avenues available for some people to escape a terrible outcome, what is the way for the average person to be able to live a good life? It seems that the idea of the "pursuit of happiness" has been reduced to continually lowering the bar to be happy, while dealing with increasing amounts of stress and social and economic duress. Sure, it might be one way to go - but is it the way we should be headed as a global society that is supposedly improving its processes and technology?
Are we actually getting better?
I question this heavily. As while we are improving in many ways, the application of the tools isn't to make our lives better, it is for making more profits. This is not the approach of a healthy community or society, it is one of a dictatorship, a ruling class, where the majority works as slaves to maximise the minority. And those who cannot work, are left to fend for themselves. And it inevitably ends one way.
Bloody revolution.
As said, if we were actually improving, we wouldn't be heading in the same direction we have time and time again. Having better tools at our disposal, doesn't mean we are building better houses, and if anything, the literal house quality is degrading, as rather than building for quality and longevity, the same consumer mentality has taken hold and it is about volume and efficiency. Everything is made to be disposable, not last or be repairable - and this thinking has invaded every level of our lives, from what we eat, to how we treat each other.
The mechanism for success in society is generating wealth, and the fastest way to do this is to continually create efficiencies, which ultimately means reducing costs, increasing prices, and lowering quality. This means less people with work, let alone meaningful work, and more cost of living pressures, which reduces quality of experience and impacts on our wellbeing. Our economic practices are fundamentally flawed, because success isn't tied to human growth potential to improve us to be better as a species.
The fastest way to the moon, isn't necessarily the best.
Maybe we are heading into such a catastrophic economic collapse, that we will learn from what we keep doing and go back to the drawing board and plan again - rather than repeat again. However, I highly doubt that we are capable of doing so, because even as people suffer themselves, they still keep fighting for the rights of the elite at the top, just in case they find themselves there one day - or they will be remembered for the scraps that are thrown under the table.
It isn't going to happen.
Once no longer useful, we the tools, get thrown away too.
Like a booster rocket falling back to earth, burning up in the atmosphere of the economy.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
From what I heard most people in Russia did denounce the invasion anyway. I don't think popular opinion goes very far over there. What do I know though. I have heard several people surmising we are heading for a major financial collapse. I'm really not sure what that will look like. I just hope I am ready for it.
I don't know how keen I'd be to denounce if I had family back there. Though, I know some Russians here who are against it - but can't publicise it in ways that it might get back home.
I am not unfortunately.
Yeah, that makes sense. I still think secretly there are probably quite a few who were against it.
I have watched quite a bit of Russian non-government videos on YouTube and read a lot on Telegram and have multiple direct contacts in Russia. This subject really interests me, so I have been following it since the invasion began more than three years ago.
Unfortunately I would have to disagree with you that most people in Russia denounced the invasion. I might make an optimistic argument for most very intelligent people in Russia (less than 10% of the population) have secretly denounced the invasion. But when it comes to the full Russian population unfortunately I have to admit that 24/7 Russian government propaganda that is flowing from all TV channels there has been VERY effective and majority of the Russians live in an alternative reality and really believe that USA, Europe and NATO are at war with Russia and that Russia is defending itself in Ukraine.
Uplifting stuff! 😁
Naa. Implode, nuke, start again, do the same shit again.
Don't wait 9 months or you'll need to add 3.5 years on top!
I am fun at parties! :D
I won't be waiting this time. I have you to remind me ;D
If you have been opposite to government you could go to the hell,
Fortunately not all country have the same situation,
The adagio is.
How much money you have, it is the value of your life.
Do not forget, by the way when hive to the moon? the next cicle of 4 year could be.
And in poorer areas, the money you have in a pocket can be the value of your life.
Exactly.
I wonder how much they have missed the Earth and whether they would like to go into space again :)
I wonder the same. I am guessing that they will have to spend a bit of time with some mental health specialists to come to terms with the experience.
Why sudden change?
What are you talking about?
It is pretty concerning and I have to stop myself from swimming in it all day.
My only hope is that the American people see what a grave mistake they have made as the history of the country and the working parts of democracy are unceremoniously discarded and they are branded as sheep pretending to be global bullies.
My rose-coloured glasses hope is knowing that giving one party so much control over the senate and all other parts now has consequences. All of the damage and destruction can be executive ordered and it will take time in courts to have it undone. In that time, I am hoping a real resistance strategy will be created and the smart people will be ready when those court orders are eventually made, and then ignored. Then it will be time to take down the insane shill for the criminal acts they have created on such larger scale.
Hope is definitely not a strategy so I am prying my attention from this and working on my community.
What is happening in US I think is a bit un-precedented. Just like having voted for a president that is a convicted criminal, so I guess it is expected.
That we would probably just repeat our mistakes makes me wonder if we can truly advance. Or will we just keep going in ever worsening circles...
This is the "thinking line" of so many of my thoughts. We aren't all going in the same direction... Or if we are, some of them are running, or driving a rocket... other's are locked in placed. With a chain holding them to the bottom. A forced locking mechanism, feed by the greed of every "rocket-man" of this reality
We're not getting any better - we're getting more and more superficial. I would dare to say that pure "consuming" is one of the post superficial passive-activities that a human can do, and we're getting pushed further into it, every day, bombarded from all sides. The system needs us to consume brainlessly, and it found amazing ways to get us there - it's for good reason that stocks like Meta, Alphabet and Amazon are the best possible investments as they are based on shoving advertisement down our throats. Contrary to foie gras, they don't take out the whole liver at once, but cut it off in pieces, leaving us with just enough to survive (we're not getting thrown away in my point of view - even the ones that fell through the grids still serve as a "bad example" to motivate us to keep grinding).
Secondly, the definition of wealth has been adapted to the needs of our current economic systems. As we're pushed to isolate us from others, removing traditions and narratives, wealth itself has become superficial. It's not what we have anymore, it's what we are able to display and pretend.
Thank you for the post! Got me a little riled up today. I'm getting frustrated with where things are going.
But this has always been the case, since ancient times. Those who had more money didn't have many problems with rules, which only served to protect the rich from being hindered by the poor.