Is Humanity Dooomed?

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crackerjack

Well-known member
john eden said:
Okay, so....

1) Is Western Civilization doomed?

Yes
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elaboration please

Because all civilisations are ultimately doomed?
Because of the current fiscal crisis?
Because liberal democracy is a sham?
Or because capitalism is a ravenous beast that eats its young and will ultimately be destroyed by its own contradictions?
 
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poetix

we murder to dissect
My chief concerns, and I appreciate this is a little self-centred, are that my children should not starve, that my wife should not be gang-raped by soldiers, and that I myself should not be bayonetted in the stomach and left to die in a ditch.

If the process of reinventing civilisation might be accomplished without my incurring these inconveniences, that would be great thx.
 
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josef k.

Dangerous Mystagogue
The film 2001 suggests that humanity will survive the collapse of western civilization (henceforth, CWC). Something like a space baby will follow it.

The SF writer Stapleton is quite good on this as well. He has successively rising and falling civilization, proceeding on down the ages for the next several million years. Eventually, humanity is destroyed, though. By the death of the sun.
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
josef k. said:
The film 2001 suggests that humanity will survive the collapse of western civilization (henceforth, CWC). Something like a space baby will follow it.

The SF writer Stapleton is quite good on this as well. He has successively rising and falling civilization, proceeding on down the ages for the next several million years. Eventually, humanity is destroyed, though. By the death of the sun.
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works for me!
 
vimothy

vimothy

yurp
"We're all doomed, dooomed, doooooomed..."

Actually, I think my mathematical description of meta-Dissensus is hilarious, but I suppose that proves your point.
 
vimothy

vimothy

yurp
Let's face it, the immanent death of humanity is one thing, but it's not nearly as important as impressing girls at parties.
 
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