Edit: Sheesh. Some of you folks need this.
Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages
up·lift·ing /ˌəpˈliftiNG/
adjective
adjective: uplifting
inspiring happiness, optimism, or hope. “an uplifting story of triumph over adversity”
Wow you all suck at this. Okay I’m gonna do an actual one. The amount of wars had around the world has SIGNIFICANTLY decreased from just a century ago.
- The world is αwful.
- The world is much better thαn it once wαs.
- The world cαn be much better than it currently is.
All three stαtements αre true αt the sαme time. It’s wrong to think these stαtements contrαdict eαch other.
You sαy there is doom in our current reαlity, and it feels true, but never discount the wonderful things either. While mαny in this threαd have focused on directly αnswering question, I suspect there mαy be αn underlying dissαtisfαction in your mentαlity.
This threαd cαn shαre wonderful things, but without α shift on mentαlity, it mαy be eαsy enough to brush off. I know becαuse I wαs and still αm like this. Prαcticing grαtitude or grαtitude journαling mαy help, it did for me.
• I’m grαteful becαuse vαccines hαve such α powerful αurα of protection, thαt we αs α society have forgotten the nαmes of the diseαses they protect αgαinst. The world can be better, because one day, we may even erαdicαte these diseαses which still plαgue our species.
• I’m grαteful I hαve opposαble thumbs, becαuse it mαkes it eαsy to be α potαto on the couch and doom scroll. The mere αct that I can see informαtion on α powerful device thαt cαn tell me the stories from αround the globe is quite incredible.
• I’m grαteful becαuse I don’t comment very often, but I wαnted to this time. I usuαlly lurk quietly, but I too cαn be better thαn I currently αm αnd pαrticipαte sometimes.What a great comment from an infrequent commenter. Thank you! This was a lovely read, good points, and I shared with my wife.
i am so distracted by your "a"s
In the grand scheme this is all fleeting. Humanity is fleeting. The earth will continue, it will heal, trees will eventually take over. The earth has patience, more than we can comprehend. Long after we’re gone it will still be here, it will be green and lush and vibrant, life will be abundant again, and we will be little more than a few ancient scars on it.
That personally brings me peace. No matter how dark things get it’s nothing on the immense scale that is out planets lifetime. 5 years? 10? 20? 100? 1000? It’s nothing to the earth. Humanity’s <10,000 years means nothing to the planet in the scale of millions of years. Even climate change, the effects to us will be horrendous, but to the earth it will keep happily spinning, and it will get over it and correct itself.
Humanity’s <10,000 years
Not to nitpick over much, but humans are ~2M years old or more, with H. sapiens being about 300K years old.
The industrial age, however, is not even 300yrs old, so there’s your flash in the pan extinction spiral, so to speak.
Even closer to the bare truth: the earth has no “patience” and “green and lush and vibrant” is beautiful to those that prefer it — but life is not assured, and neither is the eventual equilibrium that settles after our species’ last fuckup fades. Still, you’re on the right track. 😅🖖🏼
History always repeats itself.
Things get bad, then they get REALLY bad, then usually violence solves it and things get good again.
Oh, phew. 🫡
It’s definitely a cycle, and unfortunately we’re getting really close to the end of one world order and the birth of a new one.
That last one. Could we find a way to skip to there this time? No? :(
Shakes magic 8-ball
“My sources say no”
cheese exists
Underrated reminder here.
What’s your favorite cheese?
Monte Enebro, it’s a goat cheese rith a volcanic ash rind
While this argument is true, it’s full of holes.
We will all die at some point.
Praise lawd.
Something around half far sooner than they deserve, and the rest’ll hang on longer than anyone wishes they would.
i see you are also still pissed Kissinger lasted as long as he did.
Only one among thousands+, yes.
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That may not be as uplifting as you thought.
Heading for? Lol. Are in the.
Man this is some fuckin excellent news
Every generation in human history has been more intelligent and progressive than the last.
This trend is not slowing in the modern era.
this is reductive and false to the point where i have a hard time deciding where to begin
We’re actually doing pretty well, globally, at shifting to renewables. We’re making more, more quickly and more cheaply than ever before.
And the best part is that this is driven by economics, not even policy at this point. Renewables are cheaper.
AFAIK, this one isn’t true. CO2 emissions aren’t going down. We’re not getting a word with renewables instead of fossil fuels. We’re getting a world with both of them used in abundance.
But the economics are clear: if renewables stay cheaper than fossil fuels (and there’s no reason to think they won’t), governments will make the switch anyway.
Water power was cheaper than coal, yet Britain industrialized on coal power.
britbongs also chopped down all their trees and waged a worldwide war for spices they never used, they’re a silly people
Growth of carbon has been slowing to zero and we’re hitting peak carbon sometime around now
Fascism doesn’t actually last that long. At some point, policies have to have some kind of attachment to reality, and fascists are incapable of grappling with reality.
Franco stuck around for quite awhile, but yeah its track record is usually short.
Franco was the first one I thought of. However, his fascism didn’t outlive him, and President Pedophile doesn’t have 36 years to go.
But many other fascists have now been given power by TacoBoy. I don’t think any singular person’s demise is ever going to be as “uplifting” as many are dreaming…
Historians debate just how fascist Franco really was. In fact, Orwell wasn’t even that sure when he wrote Homage to Catalonia, and he was quite clear that he went to Spain expressly to kill a fascist.
putin and kim have been going for quite some time.
Those are well crafted, defensive dictatorships at this point that have had decades and decades to sow the seeds of complacency and authoritarian control of their population. In one of those examples, the people of NK worship Kim and his father and grandfather as literal gods. So Americans aren’t quite there yet.
Not saying they’re super far off, but still a bit to travel before you get to centuries of repressed soviet/russian control and literal god-king dictators with an iron first around their populace.
In one of those examples, the people of NK worship Kim and his father and grandfather as literal gods.
Lol, no they don’t.
Effectively they do. When even mild criticism can get you thrown in jail, the difference is minimal in effect…
Putin has always been a dictator, but he hasn’t always been a fascist. He started his career as a moderate technocrat that happened to have incredible access to KGB resources. Very handy if you’re in the market to be forever president. As time went on he’s been mixing and remixing his stances and aims.
As far as NK, I’m not sure they’ve ever been fascist. They’re just a vanilla authoritarian police state.
A major component you can use to point out fascism specifically out of the rogues gallery of evil ideologies is the notion that a fascist government specifically derives its power from endlessly designating and promising to destroy out-groups. If it lasts long enough to run out of targets, it goes on to consume itself.
Well, we all wish they’d “grapple” with a few rounds at high velocity instead of fingerbanging their own shit and screaming incoherently. They’re infecting the other adult-sized toddlers, and it’s getting tedious to corral at this point.
Im going to read through but I can’t imagine anything that is uplifiting enough to counter the current weights attached to us.
In 6 billion years the sun will swole up to engulf the earth and none of this will have ever mattered.
Assuming humanity doesn’t get our shit together enough to explore and settle the galax-heeheehee. I’m sorry. I used to hope for that.
I’ve been working on a new kind of spaceship designed to act as both ark and engineering station for the construction of dyson spheres. So there’s that, although I’ve not got very far with it yet.
Concepts of a plan, eh?
Well, I’ve decided to paint it red.
Even if we did, most of us will likely be born into slavery on some distant colony as the property of a deranged tech trillionaire.
I vote to reduce taxes on the slave owning billionaires just in case I ever become one.
Sensible choice.
I actually do find that comforting.
I know it’s not a big thing, but for everyone who owns Yooka-Laylee on Steam, Yooka-Replaylee just released and is temporarily giving a discount for those who bought the original. Any chance to save money and have fun is a plus. Especially if you need distraction and escapism from the world.
Bonus: the game is NOT following the trendnof being triple AAA slop $60 priced. I’m confused on how much the owner bundle discount thing is, but it’s currently 10% off in general until October 16, in which it will go back to being $29.99USD for the game. For a collect-a-thon, I’d say that’s a steal.
Hoping Playtonic is able make a true sequel eventually. Looking forward to playing this reimagined version though.
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poor T aminals 😢
