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t0lo 4 hours ago

What something?

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GolfPopper 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Look at the factors in play:

-8 billion human beings

-the continuing health impacts of COVID

-increased frequency and magnitude of destructive weather events

-global weather pattern shifts

-increasingly dysfunctional governments in previously stable nations

-markets dominated by players decoupled from reality

-a stock market bubble of immense proportions

-the end of the post-WWII order

-an interlinked global economy with very little resilience

-an increasing amount of war

I have no idea what shape the world that emerges from all the above is going to be, but I strongly doubt it will be better than it was. The obvious analogs seem to be the Great Depression and the World Wars.

I don't know exactly what will start the dominoes falling, but the current war in Persian Gulf has a lot of potential to do so.

	▲	t0lo 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My main concern isn't how or if we survive, but who we survive as- the rewriting of what the context of being human is the biggest threat to me- imagine social media but spreading increasingly depressive and depraved social attitudes. We need social buffer- and contentment and contextualising media to see us through this, alongside everything else. (A luxury i know as it shows i have a comfortable and stable existence)