We don't have any "hope." There will be no globally agreed-upon solution to climate change, and certainly no globally-enforced one. COVID is the just the beginning of a wave of world-wide diseases ravaging humanity. Democracy is being challenged on a number of fronts, from those despots who will have none of it, to its supposed homelands in the USA and the UK, where the ultra-wealthy are using superstition to obtain the populace's complicity in its destruction. Computers are growing in power and intelligence by the hour, to the point where most jobs will be eliminated in the next 10 years in the name of the efficiency of the "Profit Motive." The 24-hour surveillance state is almost in place; you won't be able to visit the toilet without your corporate overlords knowing about it, and you certainly won't be able to keep anything about your thoughts private. Just think about how many stories have appeared in the press in the past week about computers being used to read people's minds, computers being used to figure out what song is running through someone's head. And the press hails each new innovation as a wonderful boon to mankind. We're doomed. If you are not already a multi-billionaire, you and your children and grandchildren are heading straight for a life of slavery that wouldn't have been unfamiliar to the citizens of ancient Rome or Persia. The cult of hero worship centered around hateful, careless moguls like Musk and Bezos and Zuck and the triviality of our obsession with celebrity is exemplary of how stupid we've all become, with our eyes glued to our phones every waking moment of the day. Did the baby fall into the pool? Did the traffic light change? Did the kitchen catch fire? I don't know; I'm scrolling. I just hope that I die and my body is cremated before they figure out how to resurrect the dead from their DNA and force people to live until the sun burns out. Dance for me, slave!
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