Discussion Are you optimistic about the future of the world?

[ButterToast]

The question is self-explanatory. But I want to ask this because I had a talk with a few friends and one of them mentioned how he does not want to have kids because he believes that the future will be a lot more grim than today. Corruption, immorality, evil, and the hollowing of humanity is rampat when looking at politicians, world leaders, big corporation undermining justice for profit, and how everyone feels squeezed by life with little joy left.

He argued how the world does not show any positive trajectory besides getting worse in the future. And he doesn't want to bring another life form to that shit world.

I can't say I disagree, when I was little I was full of hope, but now I've grown, I see the ugliness in people at all levels. Don't get to the politican this big corp CEO that, a lot of ordinary people are willing to do bad if they have the chance to or if they feel like they can get away with it. And given technology, a world of absolute authoritarian dystopia may be possible sooner than later.

Do you hold this view?

 

[violetforever]

i read the title and immediately said "hell no" to myself

 

[itsgone2]

Everything is wrong

 

[Pluto]

 

[ZwartHartje]

The only hope for this world would be the extinction of humanity, and as soon as possible, since humans are causing more and more harm by the day as their highly invasive overpopulation continues to spiral completely out of control. It is the only species that has singlehandedly caused the extinction of thousands of others, and counting. The only species responsible for 100% of all pollution and environmental destruction and degradation. Humanity is to the Earth's biosphere as a malignant cancer is to a body, it grows and consumes uncontrollably, smothering its host and causing unspeakable pain in the process.

Cancer always dies in the end - either when the host gets cured of it or when the host dies of it. Sadly, the latter alternative seems a lot more likely at this stage.

 

[LastNite]

The car factory

 

[ButterToast]

The only hope for this world would be the extinction of humanity, and as soon as possible, since humans are causing more and more harm by the day as their highly invasive overpopulation continues to spiral completely out of control. It is the only species that has singlehandedly caused the extinction of thousands of others, and counting. The only species responsible for 100% of all pollution and environmental destruction and degradation. Humanity is to the Earth's biosphere as a malignant cancer is to a body, it grows and consumes uncontrollably, smothering its host and causing unspeakable pain in the process.

Cancer always dies in the end - either when the host gets cured of it or when the host dies of it. Sadly, the latter alternative seems a lot more likely at this stage.

Occassionally I fantasize about a world where AI overtook humanity and saw the ugliness in humanity. It decided to erase the humans and create a perfect world where the rest of nature and living being can finally live in harmony. Humans are full of greed and evil, there's a reason why all major religion are against those. Because those are inherently incompatible with a world filled with peace and harmony.

 

[darksouls]

humanity will continue to exist for a very long time,
humans are parasites,
they will destroy the planet

 

[delmatora]

I want to die participating in a violent insurgency overthrowing everything. Everywhere, any time, any system, society or ideology, everything is bound to corrupt and degrade and turn inequal and oppressive and exploitative. There's no "bettering" anything, but if the current establishment is left unharmed they will forever reign and be enriched while the marginalized are more marginalized. Destroying this cycle temporarily isn't an improvement, it's a reset. And I want to die in this societal struggle purely because I want to feel a sense of agency and self-importance for once in my life. Even if in a fantastical miracle I become a core executive in a hypothetical revolutionary government, I don't want to be the new oligarch, I want to destroy even the revolutionaries itself. In the end, the only choices are "rot as is" or "make futile changes". Both are equally meaningless in this nihilistic universe. I've been rotting all my life so I want to feel what a change is for once before I die. I would apply as a suicide bomber if it was for an enough meaningful and just cause. Regrettably I'm slow and weak so I wouldn't even suit for a suicide bomber. Maybe meat shield or a living bait.

Above is what I sometimes feel deep inside but not the deepest, probably. Although I don't have profound understanding of these deep and big topics, I see how in social mammals the pattern is always underdogs challenging the old power and either successfully replacing the throne, or roam as a lonewolf until their last breath. That nature is not lost in humanity. Young people nowadays NEED to rise up, not necessarily for the ultimately vain promises of justice or improved society, but because it's destiny. There will eventually a come critical point, and when the societal pressure explodes, no matter how much you are immersed in doomerism, no matter how much you are hopeless and inert and severely conditioned to helplessness, you will get a position in an unstoppable and inevitable movement and you will contribute to SOMETHING.

Reads like an aimless ramble and the point is vague I think, but posting anyway for the time I spent writing this. Maybe the fact that I'm listening to Metal music rn have influenced these texts.

 

[FoxSauce]

Ha! No. Everyday were closer to extinction

 

[westerly_merlin]

I am really hopeful for the future of the world. Once the human race has made itself extinct, the climate will stabilise and another species will become dominant.

For that past 100,000 years we have been fucking this planet up, I guess it will take the earth a million years or so to tidy up after us once we have gone the way of the dinosaurs.

 

[starboy2k]

Im not even optimistic about choosing what I want for dinner, let alone the future of this confusing circle of hell we call planet Earth.

 

[MissAbyss]

Honestly, I really don't care anymore.

 

[SASU-KE]

I am really hopeful for the future of the world. Once the human race has made itself extinct, the climate will stabilise and another species will become dominant.

For that past 100,000 years we have been fucking this planet up, I guess it will take the earth a million years or so to tidy up after us once we have gone the way of the dinosaurs.

Yep,As George Carlin so eloquently put it,"we're just a tick on its back. One that it will just shrug off and move on without one day "

 

[Passenger4224]

FUCK NO

 

[EternalShore]

No, neither my life nor the world at large~ Maybe someone will fix it in 20-100 years, and I just happened to be cursed at my birth and by my birth~

 

[seeyoulater26]

No! :( I don't even wanna watch or read the news because it intensifies my anxiety. I still do though to combat brain rot. But damn!!