The first mass extinction caused by an earth life form.
After we finish killing ourselves off… I wonder in the deep future if some smart creature will find it in the geological record and make jokes about how unbelievably stupid we were
Humanity is bad, but I am also a Human. And just like how I defend my ancestors regardless of moral dubiousness I will advocate for the expansion and co tinued existance of humanity.
They did kill themselves in the process, repeatedly until they finally evolved resistance.
So whenever someone assumes that accelerationism will cause a single collapse and then we’ll get Star Trek… Nope, we’ll just keep rebuilding capitalism and collapsing until we actually evolve something better. Collapse won’t teach us how to work together any faster than poison taught microbes how to breathe oxygen.
The thing about humans is that as individuals we can be rather intelligent, but as a collective we arent even sapient. A human hivemind would become effectively brain dead in an instant. But jokes aside, what others see as doom I see as an opportunity to overcome. We may come out the otherside utterly fucken reduced, but so long as we do come out of the otherside mankind will always progress.
Hopefully our descendants will look apon our actions as we look apon our chalcolithic ancestors who were the first metal smiths poisoning themselves with arsenic. A neccessary ill for progress. If we do not progress then it will all be for not.
The first mass extinction caused by an earth life form.
After we finish killing ourselves off… I wonder in the deep future if some smart creature will find it in the geological record and make jokes about how unbelievably stupid we were
We are not the first. The firat oxygen producers fucken nuked damned near every other lifeform.
thank you. i’m so fucking tired of hearing the “humanity bad” take from people who want to feel like they’re le edgee
Humanity is bad, but I am also a Human. And just like how I defend my ancestors regardless of moral dubiousness I will advocate for the expansion and co tinued existance of humanity.
Yeah, totally. But I suspect they didn’t know they were doing it, AND they didn’t also kill themselves in the process… on purpose.
They did kill themselves in the process, repeatedly until they finally evolved resistance.
So whenever someone assumes that accelerationism will cause a single collapse and then we’ll get Star Trek… Nope, we’ll just keep rebuilding capitalism and collapsing until we actually evolve something better. Collapse won’t teach us how to work together any faster than poison taught microbes how to breathe oxygen.
Maybe. Although it seems just as likely that when humans die off intelligence may not even be a genetic advantage for whatever comes next.
The thing about humans is that as individuals we can be rather intelligent, but as a collective we arent even sapient. A human hivemind would become effectively brain dead in an instant. But jokes aside, what others see as doom I see as an opportunity to overcome. We may come out the otherside utterly fucken reduced, but so long as we do come out of the otherside mankind will always progress.
Hopefully our descendants will look apon our actions as we look apon our chalcolithic ancestors who were the first metal smiths poisoning themselves with arsenic. A neccessary ill for progress. If we do not progress then it will all be for not.