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I'm pretty optimistic. As always, there will be big fluctuations between times of prosperity and times of crisis, but we'll keep evolving exponentially, like we always have. That's unless something terrible happens, and we're wiped off the face of Earth, like dinosaurs, but there's little chance for that to happen.
That being said, it's really petty that human life is so short. I imagine that before we hit the overpopulation wall and exhaust our natural resources, we'll improve the efficiency of our living and industry and find some form of travel, that will take us to other planets, where we can prosper. And I'd love to be there when that happens  .
Then again, I think we're already living in a pretty interesting era - the internet age. We're connected with the whole world at any time, which enables us to communicate and work with all the people around the world. Literally endless libraries of knowledge are open to us, and I imagine our brain will adapt to soaking more and more information as we progress. The only sad thing is, that famine and poverty still exist, and it will probably take a lot of time, before this is fixed.
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you make an interesting point. To think that we could, right now, be on the very cusp of total destruction and therefore are the most evolved humanity will ever be. Perhaps that's how they felt at the pinnacle of the Roman Empire lol. Maybe even at the pinnacle of the Native Americans' perfected nomadic lifestyle.
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@sc4k: Maybe, that's why I say things tend to fluctuate. Even if we get completely wiped out one day, I'm sure that after some time a new civilization will evolve, that will surpass our former.
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Optimistic, Esports is growing
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I do hope that we can change but it is just the fact thy history does repeate its self and it ii incredibly hard to change habits over hundreds of years old. But we have changed quiet abit. Like human rights and everything, so who knows? Maybe (hopefully) I am wrong :D
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LOL the members of TL have played Starcraft so much and is now lead into an optimistic appraoch to the future because in starcraft the human mankind came through our current stage obiously somehow, so why cant we also o_____o
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Two words... global warming
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I am still waiting for my hovering car or a fucking jetpack. Fuck the future until I get those things
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Despite nay sayers tomorrow is always a better day.
always.
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For some reason, this feels relevant. I've been watching this dude's youtube videos recently, and a lot of what he says makes sense, even if he deals with rather whacky concepts to begin with. I know what you guys are gonna say, I'm just some crazy hippie, but I think this guy knows what he's talking about and has it right for some reason. Here's an example video.
+ Show Spoiler +Watch some of this one at least. It sounds weird at first, but give him a couple minutes and you'll see what I mean. If you're interested, maybe this one next, or at least a small part of it:
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zFly I have seen that movie already on dvd where it's titled 'The love guru'.
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Pessimistic. Money decides where mandkind will go, meaning a tiny minority decides the development for the vast majority through their short-sighted monetary goals. In not many years, oil will dry up, and even if we might have found better, cleaner and cheaper energy sources by then, the monetary ruling elite will use their power to halt the extent of these new energy sources to preserve their position of power as the ruling elite. This will result in the continued rape of second and third world resources, the machination of the majority of the first world citizens, and war for an obsolete power source.
If we survive the energy war, a new power elite for the new energy source will take over, and continue the cycle.
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On May 03 2010 23:30 plated.rawr wrote:
Pessimistic. Money decides where mandkind will go, meaning a tiny minority decides the development for the vast majority through their short-sighted monetary goals. In not many years, oil will dry up, and even if we might have found better, cleaner and cheaper energy sources by then, the monetary ruling elite will use their power to halt the extent of these new energy sources to preserve their position of power as the ruling elite. This will result in the continued rape of second and third world resources, the machination of the majority of the first world citizens, and war for an obsolete power source.
If we survive the energy war, a new power elite for the new energy source will take over, and continue the cycle.
Hey man. I'm part of that ruling elite and I resent being called short-sighted.
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On May 03 2010 23:31 lOvOlUNiMEDiA wrote:Show nested quote +On May 03 2010 23:30 plated.rawr wrote:
Pessimistic. Money decides where mandkind will go, meaning a tiny minority decides the development for the vast majority through their short-sighted monetary goals. In not many years, oil will dry up, and even if we might have found better, cleaner and cheaper energy sources by then, the monetary ruling elite will use their power to halt the extent of these new energy sources to preserve their position of power as the ruling elite. This will result in the continued rape of second and third world resources, the machination of the majority of the first world citizens, and war for an obsolete power source.
If we survive the energy war, a new power elite for the new energy source will take over, and continue the cycle. Hey man. I'm part of that ruling elite and I resent being called short-sighted.
History is not counted in years or decades, so unless you have plans on how to mold mankind for the next centuries, then you are short sighted.
Also, unless you're a part of the 1% at the top, you're just a part of the machinized citizens of the first world.
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On May 03 2010 23:37 plated.rawr wrote:Show nested quote +On May 03 2010 23:31 lOvOlUNiMEDiA wrote:On May 03 2010 23:30 plated.rawr wrote:
Pessimistic. Money decides where mandkind will go, meaning a tiny minority decides the development for the vast majority through their short-sighted monetary goals. In not many years, oil will dry up, and even if we might have found better, cleaner and cheaper energy sources by then, the monetary ruling elite will use their power to halt the extent of these new energy sources to preserve their position of power as the ruling elite. This will result in the continued rape of second and third world resources, the machination of the majority of the first world citizens, and war for an obsolete power source.
If we survive the energy war, a new power elite for the new energy source will take over, and continue the cycle. Hey man. I'm part of that ruling elite and I resent being called short-sighted. History is not counted in years or decades, so unless you have plans on how to mold mankind for the next centuries, then you are short sighted. Also, unless you're a part of the 1% at the top, you're just a part of the machinized citizens of the first world.
Not only am I part of the ruling elite, I'm a leader of the ruling elite.
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At least regarding wars Human kind has improved drastically.
Before modern societies and such were established roughly 1% of the entire human population died each year by another human hand in small scale wars and raids mostly between tribes and clans.
If this would be same today it would mean that 1% of 6,000,000,000 people would die each year which would result into 60,000,000 people each year. This equals the total deaths of the second world war however this death rate was produced under 6 years (1939 to 1945). So It's allot less violent today, even during the second world war. We are going in the right direction.
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On May 03 2010 23:43 lOvOlUNiMEDiA wrote: Not only am I part of the ruling elite, I'm a leader of the ruling elite. I can vouch for that. I'm his second-in-command, and we've got plans for all you dicks that extend for millenia.
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On May 03 2010 20:56 zealing wrote:
you better be optimistic about the future or else your going to be miserable your whole life as we ain't going anywhere but into the future.
pessimism is for pussies.
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On May 03 2010 23:30 plated.rawr wrote:
Pessimistic. Money decides where mandkind will go, meaning a tiny minority decides the development for the vast majority through their short-sighted monetary goals. In not many years, oil will dry up, and even if we might have found better, cleaner and cheaper energy sources by then, the monetary ruling elite will use their power to halt the extent of these new energy sources to preserve their position of power as the ruling elite. This will result in the continued rape of second and third world resources, the machination of the majority of the first world citizens, and war for an obsolete power source.
If we survive the energy war, a new power elite for the new energy source will take over, and continue the cycle.
I don't think you quite realize just how much having no oil will plunge the world in chaos. Nobody is going to care that much about money.
If we have no viable alternative when oil runs dry our world will quickly look very different. Without oil you have no fuel, no transportation of food, no electricity, no nothing. When the transportation of goods stop...everything stops.
Actual wars kill everyone, not just the soldiers.
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