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I'm talking about stuff like "there's NOT gonna be an election in 2028" and such, and I also support optimism

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[–] unknown@piefed.social 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The higher we soar, the harder we fall.

All the knowledge and resources that have built this wonderous technological world we live in, are finite, and it would only take a few well placed/timed natural/man-made disasters to revert us permanantly back to the iron age (at best) within months.

(Seriously, a large solar flare alongside a highly contageous and deadly disease could not only wipe out all electronics but also the majority of the minds and bodies required to mine, trade, manufacture, build and operate them.)

And that's without even acknowledging the looming catastrophic climate collapse and resource depletion coming for us this century. Without stable climates, arable land and fresh water, there is no life.

Enjoy the last of the abundance we have, but don't be so optimistic as to be blind to it's precariousness.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought the point of this was to be positive, and not be super pessimistic?

[–] unknown@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I'm probably not helping much. Blind optimism hurts a lot more when it lets you down though.