Is Humanity Dooomed?
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and there the vikings were, living happily on greenland seemingly successfully after hundreds of years, not taking their problems seriously, and not knowing that soon they would all freeze and starve to death.
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Heat death of the sun, etc etc.
with respect, the fate of different ethnic groups are much more connected today than they were before.
with respect, how past peoples have met their doom has everything to do with humanity in 2009: the same problems, the same choices to ignore or solve them.
vimothy
yurp
Let me put it another way: civilisations have collapsed before, but humanity survived. Two assumptions then are necessary to say that humanity is doomed. The first assumption is that "our civilisation", meaning the inter-linked global state system, is doomed. The second assumption is that the collapse of this system will destroy humanity.
Ultimately, if it happens, I believe that it will be because of ruptures in the intertemporal fabric of the hardcore continuum, caused by Simon Reynold's article about wonky and ketamine.
Ultimately, if it happens, I believe that it will be because of ruptures in the intertemporal fabric of the hardcore continuum, caused by Simon Reynold's article about wonky and ketamine.
except they didn't cause soil erosion through over farming, and deplete marine life from over fishing, polute the atmosphere with wanton industry, etc., and causing their own destruction through short sighted practices did they?
did you recently hit your head craner? your posts lately have been really stupid.
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also, the level of destruction is unprecedented: 80% of all large fish in the ocean gone. hockey stick graphs of temperature rise. etc. etc. etc. etc.
thus the stakes are higher than they were before: eco collapse will not be regional like before, and catastrophe will affect humanity globally.
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I blame the forgetting of Being. Also: phonologophallocentrism, obscure and reactive subjectivities, the reduction of the Face of the Other to a mere sense datum, biopower, sex negativity, vampiric capital, arborescent conceptual schematisation, grand narratives, the Spectacle and the blocking of flows.
If we could just get rid of all those things, our immortality would be assured - we'd probably just, like, sublime into beings of pure orgone energy or something like that.
If we could just get rid of all those things, our immortality would be assured - we'd probably just, like, sublime into beings of pure orgone energy or something like that.
you forgot pretentiousness.
disagree with distinction between "western" and... eastern? civilization because i believe the separation of the 2 are exaggerated or completely fictional.
i would say civilization as we know it, this particular form of social organization, is doomed. but whether it will kill us all no one knows.
i would say civilization as we know it, this particular form of social organization, is doomed. but whether it will kill us all no one knows.
