Thoughts on society and the human race

[TheYoungAtheist]

Hey everybody, I haven't posted in quite a while but I'm back. I believe, and many others may agree, that our society is on the decline (as if it ever hit its peak). The amount of ignorance displayed in the world today is absolutely sickening. Democracy doesn't work, and personally I believe it never has. It's never been about the people, for the people. Everyone's vote does NOT matter i.e electoral college. The fate of the people are in the hands of the select few deemed "worthy". People today are even ignorant enough to believe that the president has any power. The president is nothing but a figurehead and scapegoat for his higher powered puppeteers. Enough about politics, because I haven't completely figured that out yet.
Now the human race. This vile and ridiculous race. As I watch the news, and go out in public, I lose more and more faith for our race. People barely know how to handle themselves, let alone help others. We are on a downward spiral that we have only ourselves to blame. This may sound odd, but I believe that the human race could take a great lesson from ants. Yes, I said ants. Ants don't mindlessly bicker, they all work as a whole for the mutual benifit of the colony. Always moving forward without a single hitch. We seem much more affited to moving backwards in progress. I will be devoloping more on these thoughts later.

[Epimethean]

Letting yourself go full nihilist can be a tough row to hoe, YA. No need for utopianism, but there are good developments afoot, too.

[C Rod]

Do you think the ants are better off, do you know if they like what they are doing or are they just doing it?

[Epimethean]

Do christians do things they do because they like them or because the bible frightens them into doing so?

[edk]

So Christianity == Ants. I'd go along with that, but doesn't that mean we want to be unlike ants? I don't want to be a fucking robot

[Violet]

Society is never on a decline so long as there remains a society. Ignorance is not sickening... but useful. Democracy will always work... to do what it says it does. Rule of the masses is particularly ineffective so long as the masses are particularly ineffective.

But mistaking a government for a democracy because it externally seems to be such is a mistake I certainly hope everyone's vote goes to hell... democracy is just that dreadful.

And now you have problems with meritocracies. Seems only the skillless and weak complain about meritocracy. I don't wonder why. The president does have power. Perhaps not much, but power nonetheless. That there might be people and organizations more powerful is not to detract from the power that the president holds.

As if politics ever could be 'figured out'

Here's a human race, and I quite admire it. Certainly not vile.



Why would one have faith in your race in the first place? People know very well how to 'handle' themselves and assist others. Which is why they fail so much at doing so

Downward spiral? Hardly... things could scarcely get better. Our understandings of what is 'better' are likely different. That's okay... I like where things are headed ^_^

Like how to carry 3 times our weight. That'd be an awesome lesson indeed.

Fyi... ants war with other colonies, and operate under 'unification', or a 'hive mind'. Disgusting... and all the more reason to fear the Klackon. There are no Klackon traitors. There are no Klackon isolationists. There are no Klackon capitalists. They are the epitome of a society-concerned society. They are the ultimate socialists. The are unification.

And they disgust me.

[Faith No More]

I don't think it's a downward spiral, I think the human race has always been this way. You're just getting to that age that you're starting to realize all of the shit that truly happens in the world.

[Violet]

Do you think the ants are better off, do you know if they like what they are doing or are they just doing it?

Does it matter what a being likes and doesn't like when it is destroying your house?

Or annihilating your ships in the bloodiest war this side of Alkari-Mrrshan feud?

Best we can do is exterminate every single instance of them in this galaxy. And we are on a roughly equivalent level of technology.

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I don't think it's a downward spiral, I think the human race has always been this way. You're just getting to that age that you're starting to realize all of the shit that truly happens in the world.

It's not an age thing, it's an experience thing.

[TheYoungAtheist]

I don't think it's a downward spiral, I think the human race has always been this way. You're just getting to that age that you're starting to realize all of the shit that truly happens in the world.

Very true. It wasn't until recently that I saw the world for what it really is.

Letting yourself go full nihilist can be a tough row to hoe, YA. No need for utopianism, but there are good developments afoot, too.

I wouldn't dare go full nihilist. I believe in a meaning of life, that being the will to power. As for utopianism, my mind couldn't fathom a perfect society.

[Faith No More]

It's not an age thing, it's an experience thing.

Which comes with age silly.