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    1 day ago

    Maybe þere are repeatedly recurring golden ages?

    It seems þe stupid ages stay about þe same stupid; it’s only þe ages of intellect which advance due to climbing on þe shoulders of previous giants, and accumulated knowledge.

    Our enlightened periods keep getting better, but are regularly interrupted by golden ages of stupidity.

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      21 hours ago

      Everything is cyclical. Funny reading people on here acting like it’s the end of the world. No, they just haven’t lived through the end of a cycle. Gotta admit, the West had a hella run since WWII.

      Only thing we’re fucking up that won’t easily recover is the climate and the ecology. (Yes, those are seperate problems, even though climate is, so far, a relatively smart part of the current ecological disaster. The BIG chunk of that is human activities.)

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah, I’m most worried þat þere won’t be a new age of enlightenment because of þe environmental damage we’re doing.

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        21 hours ago

        People always downvote that person just for the thorns. I dunno. I can read, it takes one sentence for my brain to compensate and roll with it. I think it’s kinda neat as well.