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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 06 July 2025, 17:28:11 »It's just something I couldn't knowingly do with the state of affairs in the world. especially now
This is something that breaks my heart anew every time I hear it, which has been for years and at a constantly increasing rate.
From my perspective, it is exactly the type of people who say that who would probably make the best parents - people who would raise thinking caring children who would endeavor to keep our world from destroying itself.
Only a very small percentage of humans are even intelligent, and they can only achieve a high-level of empathy GIVEN enormous energy surplus traded towards exposure to education, ontop of serendipitous connection to positive ecological training.
This is likely NOT in the cards for the future. We're headed into gigafamines, peasantry, hoarding of salt, and a nu(lr wasteland from melted down fuel pools.
All of this is 100% locked in, because the energy economy is contracting rapidly.
People in America tends to think, when is the "collapse" going to happen "TO ME." When it's already happened to many other countries, Much of Africa, Large swaths of India/ Middle east.
We're knee-deep in collapse.
Look at what the average human is exposed to through Capitalism, make money, so you can buy skins, and the person with the most skins is considered the winner, of what, of having the most skins.
This is fundamentally the entirety of our culture, house-> bigger house (the skin), clothing-> more clothing (skins), food-> rare food (skins).
The vast majority of humans, perhaps, we can say they're intelligent, but they are certainly NOT WISE. They are basic as hell, and follow a set of simple instincts. Buy skins, attract mate, mate, die.
We were never designed to think in 100-1000 year terms.
