"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope."
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"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope."
-Ursula K. Le Guin
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@RustyBertrand the opposite is likely true - life is getting easier and better - this has been a trend over the last couple centuries and does not look to be changing in the immediate future. #steven pinker
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@gary_alderson @RustyBertrand By what metric? All in all life literally got worse in the last decades, especially in the west with neolibertarianism being on a rampage.
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@Natanox @RustyBertrand oh hell no - won't even respond to that trash
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@gary_alderson @Natanox @RustyBertrand yeah I mean, we are clearcutting the rainforest and stuff, but we get tostitos out of the deal, so who can really say that degrading the ecosystem and habitats that trillions of creatures depend on is actually making life worse?
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@caitp @gary_alderson @RustyBertrand Surely all those increasing natural disasters also have their upsides.
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