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ronintetsuro  ·  4126 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is An Empty Ocean By 2048 Really What We Want?

I would only say that humanity continuing to look to solely technology based solutions is an ugly end to an epoch. We risk total resource depletion without a Plan B, and that can lead to a species-fatal population crash.

I think we as a global entity need to start focusing on disentangling ourselves from the Corporate mechanism we've created to bring us convenience and abundance. Because it creates people like Edward Bernays and Walt Disney and Megyn Kelly to trick us into believing things that are false and irrelevant.

Technology doesn't mean robots. It means better tools. Our user experience is still up to us, and at this juncture in human evolution, I think we all can look around and agree it's time for some brevity regarding where decisions like Citizen's United take us in the future. Not only ecologically and economically; but also spiritually, morally.

Nature, when not embraced, has the mechanisms to cleanse herself of infestation. We are a problematic infestation. It remains to be seen if we are self-correcting or are fated for extermination.