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So do you believe humans are, at their core and regardless of system, predisposed to destroy the planet?
Taking this frame of thinking to its inevitable end, you're either going to mow down as many people as a first step towards omnicide or you've given up and you're resigned with the destruction of the world, proving to yourself that if you aren't willing to do something to "improve" things, it must be human nature. This is obviously not me saying to go do an omnicide, but your blackpilled frame of thinking is self-enforcing. If you felt like there was a better solution out there and that socialism was a direction towards less destruction such that generations after us could keep moving towards something better, you'd be able to help build it, but you don't, so you are chained to your doom, determined to chain us with you. The handful of capitalists busy fucking the world thank you for giving up.
the selfish gene is ruling the party
capitalism and imperialism is unprecedented in it's global reach. if you look at human history you will see mostly asshole leaders being violently deposed whenever they start getting cocky.
it's that time of existential threat again, and we shouldn't hide behind empty claims of human nature for our duty when it has been shown time and again a better world is possible.
Mostly? No you do not lol
this is either defeatism or justification for inaction. in a we can't possibly improve things so let's succumb to nuclear winter (despite things being much better not that many years ago) kind of way.
that just isn't true at all for most of humanity's history. we lived in relatively peaceful communes for the vast majority of our history.
and you might be way too used to western antics to notice quite a lot of our leaders did the best they could throughout history.