As the title implies, this is a question I have been grappling with since I could form a coherent thought. The current election results of the USA seems to reinforce this idea to me, do we do anything for this planet that is beneficial beyond trying to dampen the mistakes we have already made to the environment? I hate our species because our progress is damnation for everything else and I know any child I could have would just be contributing to the problem…
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We are absolutely parasites. Our well-being is predicated on the demise or cost of everything around us. Trees and plants, animals, each other we’ll consume everything around us in order to thrive. We are so inwardly focused that we will never collectively care enough to change that behavior. We empirically make other species lives worse. Minus like dogs and cats. They seem to get a pass.
personally I’m a symbiote, usually with other humans. They provide me their pain and drama, I provide them my calm and ease. We both need the other, it seems.
However the human heart is an unending hole, anyone owning one must know that to some extent. You can moderate it, or you can become as craven as the world around you. Enough seems to be incredibly hard for people to understand, or achieve.
Adaptive pressure is what I’m saying, is what is ill here. Adaptive pressure pushed for never ending growth from markets, and gave it few places to relieve that stress. Our modern economy requires endless growth, not by design but by level of corruption.
It’s as maladaptive as it comes, the way humans in the US appear to have voted. I’m one of them, but obviously I was voting the other way. This entire modern take on economy in that it says educating people creates educated jobs. It is nothing more than wish fulfillment.
Instead by over pricing and undervaluing education they assure there will be less of it in the future. Education is required to understand such things as long term consequences, and what just happened is the most massive failure in education I’ve ever heard of.
We are, as a species, hard to kill survivors. That looks like being a parasite sometimes, or a pest. Our determination to survive gives rise to many of our worst behaviors.
I guess I thought the rest of the species and I were on the same page of thinking that we needed to discourage those behaviors.
It’s okay to be wrong, it happens all the time to anyone to make a declaritory statement, and I think that humility is something really missing from our leadership.