I've been coming to the viewpoint that man is simultaneously the best and the worst lifeform to ever exist on earth... His mania, his hubris, greed, treachery, savagery, weakness, degeneracy, foolishness, sadomasochism, destructiveness, etc etc. Although man does have many redeeming qualities, I feel that the time for 'redemption' is over, and time is coming where he will have to pay severely for his countless errors and wrongdoings.
Will the accelerating process of civilizational development spanning the end of the last Ice Age to the global diffusion of modern Western civ in the 21st century reveal itself to be, not a wonderful and reassuring tale of human "progress", but rather a movement perversely comparable to an avalanche driven towards cataclysmic terminus? Between the specters of nuclear annihilation, resource/energy depletion, and the global ecological crisis, will modernity turn out to be the exit chamber from the laboratory of the "failed experiment" of man?
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Will the accelerating process of civilizational development spanning the end of the last Ice Age to the global diffusion of modern Western civ in the 21st century reveal itself to be, not a wonderful and reassuring tale of human "progress", but rather a movement perversely comparable to an avalanche driven towards cataclysmic terminus? Between the specters of nuclear annihilation, resource/energy depletion, and the global ecological crisis, will modernity turn out to be the exit chamber from the laboratory of the "failed experiment" of man?
@MarquisDeSade
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