A few days ago I was reading and researching about the possibility that we live in a simulation. One of the authors posed three questions, and one of them said: "If we assume that our advanced technological society isn't self-destructive,...."
That was the first time I really started thinking about that idea. Is humanity really self-destructive if it gets enough time? Is that why we will never find extraterrestrial life? Do all societies that might've ever been, ultimately self-destruct? If you look at how we're behaving and how the world has changed over the last hundred years, the thought of that doesn't even sound crazy to me anymore sometimes.
I think that it is a prtty fair bet that we are self-destructive at least from a society level as we tend to keep collecting and creating inequalities until we eat ourselves. Capitalism does it and needs to be reset often but, as technology increases, it gets to a point where the advancement requires massive revolution faster than it can be invented and the system collapses under the pressure. Tie that to the natural and human degradation for profit and it is a recipe for implosion.
As I see it, the only way out is a fundamental shift in thinking yet, we are nearly all too stupid to either see it or, make the changes necessary.
Not necessarily stupid, mostly too greedy. We think the earth is permanent. We feel that because we are the most populous animal on the planet, we will endure. We believe that science will save us and yet, if we look at this assumptions critically, they are all lies.
We see the problem but we do not react because it is not happening in our neighborhood. We see what fossil fuel is doing to the earth's water bodies, what gas emissions is causing the weather and seasons, what the hunt for more land space to do whatever is causing to the trees and forests but it does not concern us as long as it is not in our community.
I feel that to change the way we think, in the process of saving the world, the economic system operating presently has to be abolished. The profit oriented business model has no conscience or love for the earth.
I do not know what alternatives there are that can replace the free market economy but I believe it is something that should make competition and the pursuit of wealth and profit over all else seem redundant. That is how I see it.
Those who share anything they see on the internet on social media platforms have failed their society. It is their duty to confirm what they have read to be the truth before disseminating it as truth. Wars have been fought over false news, families destroyed and the lives of people wasted. One has to be careful what one puts on his or her feed.
This was quite a thought provoking piece. Thank you @tarazkp for making me think.
.....Perhaps you are buying into your own fake news?lololol
Banking systems, not capitalism.
(by banking systems I refer to socialism/central governmnet as well - all the same thing.
Banks want socialism/communism, and it is these same banks that have been pushing for it for the last 200 years...)
my last weeks posts have been about this.....the big picture is an eye opener...
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/russian-revolution-s-and-the-rothchilds-part-1
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/the-american-revolution-what-revolution
To be entirely honest, this is totally natural behavior and if a species doesn't self-correct itself then nature will interfere.
One of the things we tend to forget/dismiss/refuse to even notice is that for the past few decades (around) nature has been looking for the disease which could correct our ever growing population levels and thus also stabilize the planet. Nature often came close, diseases like HIV (unnoticed incubation period) and Ebola (speed of contagion) were almost perfect when observing their lethal nature and most definitely their virality.
But our medical and scientific prowess has so far been able to adapt and win even.
Those diseases weren't accidental, they are the similar to the Black Pest in Middle Age which when looked at neutrally happened mostly in large cities, overpopulated and overcrowded unsafe and massively polluting locations. In other words... a correction.
And so far, the only surviving killer nature still has on its hands... slowly but surely we are winning the fight against. The mere question right now is who is fastest: our science or can the Big C. go more viral and affect ever more as predicted.
TL;DR: the animal species that is humans is self-destructive just like most other species and if it fails at doing such, nature will intervene and correct the situation to maintain the stability of the planet. We all deem ourselves that smart a species that the majority even doesn't recognize we are killing ourselves as a species. Whether that happens with or without technology and progress is pretty much irrelevant.