• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Almost the same except we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.

    People needlessly suffer and die painfully simply because VERY few of us want control and many more keep repeating the lies that those few have created to control us.

    Watching it play out ad naseum once you’re aware of the farce makes it depressing to watch and it makes you realize how easy it is to control human behavior to the point where repeated genocides are ignored enough to allow them to happen.

    I want to know if there will ever be a time when manufactured narratives & consent doesn’t control the lives of humanity and it might make the nothingness of death a little bit easier to stomach knowing that it’ll come to pass.

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      1 hour ago

      […] we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.

      Yeah, this has been my fear lately. As a kid in the '80s/'90s, I had high hopes for humanity. I loved space travel stories; read so many science fiction books, watched Star Trek/Star Wars, loved space films of all genres…

      But lately, I’ll be happy if we ever make it to Mars. The one person who had a dedicated mission to get a man on Mars turned out to be a self-destructing billionaire sociopath who seems to have abandoned that dream for political meddling aspirations instead.

      If we can get capitalism out of the way, humanity might have a chance at bouncing back. But as long as a few powerful elites maintain control over society, our hopes and dreams will forever be redirected toward financial gains until the collapse of society.

      On the plus side, even Rome, the most stable and advanced civilization outside of our own, eventually collapsed. Humanity survived and eventually went on to thrive once again, doing even better this time. By the historical timeline of the birth and death of civilizations, America is long overdue for a collapse. Maybe we’re about to see a global change that will reset our predicament and give us another chance to succeed. If we can learn from our past.