• zephyrvs
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    1 year ago

    The Star Trek future needed World War 3, nuclear annihilation and elite eugenics to emerge, so we’re on the right track.

    • keepthepace@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      Recent events give me fuel for hope actually:

      • Russia has shown to have a hard time invading a small country and being a minor power with nukes, so WWIII with them seems unlikely
      • The power of economic sanctions makes a confrontation with China less likely, the oligarchic power there not seeing what it has to gain with it
      • Environmentalism, despite what many people think, has become a mainstream opinion in most western countries
      • Authoritarians who used some kind of socialism as their core ideology now switched to the far right as their main relays. Now 95% of the anticapitalists do not consider Russia or China as models anymore. A real discussion is occurring unencumbered of authoritarian baggage and apologetics.

      A big part of the perception that the world is getting shittier actually comes from the world and the public opinion getting better at self-awareness and introspection. Overdue critics of colonialism and neocolonialism are gaining traction (to the point that conservatives consider it is not niche anymore but a threat they need to address). Systemic racism is now a notion that is discussed within the Overton window. To someone like me in his 40s the evolution of the acceptance of LGBTQ has actually been pretty fast.

      Also a bit more debatable I guess, but I also see the declining religiosity of the rich countries as a big factor for hope.