My brother in Christ, helluva people, especially young, religious or not, wish openly or secretly for some sort of apocalypse, reset of civilization, zombie pandemics and so on and so forth.
I am not religious, but I honestly think that the best thing that could happen, overall, is humanity killing ourselves off. We’re a net negative for almost everything else on this planet.
The difference is that I, and all - or at least, the vast majority - of the folks you refer to aren’t actively trying to make it happen.
Every century of humanity’s existence has lengthened our lives and enhanced our standards of living.
It also continues to make things progressively worse for other species. Are you saying you think that we’ll eventually find a way to overcome the heat death of the universe, and that that chance makes anything we do in the meantime justified?
Or are you saying that since we’re the most intelligent species on the planet, our comfort is what matters, and if anything else suffers for that end, it’s okay?
Our trajectory is not into the grave, it’s into the stars.
Maybe, but I think we don’t deserve it, and most other life here is worse off for it.
We are all headed towards the heat death of the universe with near zero chance for persistence beyond it. (…) With that said, we are the only beings that demonstrate an understanding of that probable future; And are thus the only beings possibly capable of doing anything about it.
You do not really think that, even if some descendant of us still exists at the time of the heat death of the universe (having somehow survived billions of years in a dark universe with no posibillity (to our present knowledge) to generate any kind of usable energy), they will in any way be human? Or even be able to remember or discover that we were their ancestors?
Edit (Addendum): I think even if human descendants should be around at the death of our sun, they will not be able to be called (or remember being) human.
I’m not very religious either and I think you’re an idiot, since only idiots give up the potential for greatness, because they themselves forget to balance out the daily intake of negativity with positivity.
That’s not idiocy so much as apathy. Apathy comes from repeated disappointment.
Would you like to actually offer a counter-argument to my position? I’d be happy to discuss it. If you’re just going to sling ad hominem insults, I’m simply not interested.
It’s not about having to have to. It’s about having it, because that shit affects others.
Slavoj Zizek wrote that zombie stories like WWZ and the Living Dead movies are popular is because it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. People have so absorbed Thatcher’s “There is no alternative” that the only alternative we can picture is the literal destruction of society itself.