MercurySunrise

joined 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I disagree that it was a good run. There have been great people, great ideas... but they'll all get washed away to nothing in the deluge of those who are empty and careless. I think that's really what bothers me the most. It's not that there are so many terribly stupid people. It's that the intelligent people are so exceedingly rare that they cease to matter within the masses. Actually, maybe that is truly the problem. Intelligence inequality. If we were all stupid or all smart, I feel that everything would be less tragic. If we were all stupid, I and others wouldn't be intelligent enough to experience the differential that causes suffering. If we were all smart, climate change wouldn't even be happening. There are people who do want to help, who do want better. Few can hear. Most can't even understand when they do. That is unfortunately the nature of being alternative. Perhaps eventually such won't be alternative. Only time can truly tell. Perhaps being human will be something to be proud of... however, I sincerely doubt it. The death we have caused just because we could, within my lifetime let alone further, is basically unforgivable. Our current global oligarchs make Hitler look like a bitch. The devastation that has ensued in the last half century and what's coming in the near future is beyond atrocious. The struggle that so many people live every single day, the torture that so many species are actively experiencing, we humans have turned our planet into a literal hell. Maybe something will miraculously break the societal bubble, people will realize how wrong everything has become, and we'll have a sudden burst of sociological evolution. Many are trying! There's just so many more that aren't. In fact, the ones that are most against those trying are the ones with the most power in our world. Until that changes, the odds against us all do seem insurmountable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I've officially said my goodbyes. It's absolutely fucked over there. This is just one of many serious problems with Reddit. The CEO is tanking it harder than Musk tanked Twitter. He's musk'd it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

My only wish is that people had the ability to care and therefore "wake up". Outside of 0.2% of the global population, they don't and they won't. Our brains are, overall and by mass majority, as dead as the reef is about to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Society is a really shitty simulation made by psychotic sadists. No "hacking" was necessarily required. We all agreed to it by doing nothing to actually stop it. Some people just agree more fervently than others. Can definitely be argued as a sort of stockholm syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I agree! Especially here in the US. Solarpunk has gigantic potential in the Americas overall. I've got big travel plans next year I'm already saving up for but I'll definitely be finding my way to a convention somewhere in the relatively near future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I fucking love Adam. I wondered where he went. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Where was I to find the info on this? I'd like to go if another is held.

Update: I found the link for it at the bottom of the article. It's a german event, also.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I agree. They're not intrinsically related, there is a tiny overlap due to a schism in transhumanist thought. I consider myself a natural transhumanist. Usual transhumanism is entirely cyberpunk territory.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Finally. Jesus fucking christ, took them long enough to do something useful with these sites.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Plastic manufacturing and pollution hurts the entire world, including what is basically lobbyists that they let in to derail the conversation. 99% of plastic production should have ceased 10 years ago. This article made me cry (but thank you for sharing).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I wish you much luck! <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is more specific to capitalism than just corporatism but I do agree with you.

 

I'm wondering about making a voidpunk community here on slrpnk.net. I've got a bit on my plate to handle moderating it right now but it's a serious consideration for me later in the year. Is it a good idea? Do any of you here identify as such as well? I consider myself part of both communities.

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