• Allero@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    People were always manipulated. I mean, they were indoctrinated with divine power of rulers, how much worse can it get? It’s just that now it tries to be a bit more stealthy.

    And previously, there were plenty of existential threats. Famine, plague, all that stuff that actually threatened to wipe us out.

    We’re still here, and we have what it takes to push back. We need more organizing, that’s all.

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      2 months ago

      Well, it doesn’t have to get worse, AFAIK we are still headed towards human extinction due to Climate Change

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        2 months ago

        Honestly, the “human extinction” level of climate change is very far away. Currently, we’re preventing the “sunken coastal cities, economic crisis and famine in poor regions” kind of change, it’s just that “we’re all gonna die” sounds flashier.

        We have the time to change the course, it’s just that the sooner we do this, the less damage will be done. This is why it’s important to solve it now.

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      2 months ago

      In the past our eggs were not all in one basket.

      In the past it wasn’t possible to fuck up so hard you destroy all of humanity. That’s a new one.