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by Towaway69 18 days ago
What progress are you referring to? The shiny blinky things that scroll across our screens while the poor stay poor, war rages everywhere and the internet is overwhelmed with fake AI generated content.

The more I look back into history, the more I realise that besides the sparkling blinky-blinky gadgets, we have made no progress at all - on a species level. We’re still living in caves, we’re still believe in God myths that make no sense and let ourselves be blindly led by folks who claim legitimacy because they won voter approval based on the lies they told.

No, for me progress is a fiction invented in hollywood or silicon valley. Real progress would be understanding our place in the universe, understanding that we are one of many species with which we share this planet, that we don’t have the right to strip clear the planet for our sole benefit. And that shiny bits of metal or bits of paper with numbers and faces on them aren’t important and most certainly won’t help us achieve true progress.
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1-more 14 days ago
> The more I look back into history, the more I realise that besides the sparkling blinky-blinky gadgets, we have made no progress at all - on a species level.

2019–2020 world average life expectancy at birth was 72.6–73.2 years. In 1950 it was 45.7–48. In 1900 it was 31–32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

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warumdarum 17 days ago
Can there be peace and progress.. where a hockeystick meets a horizontal line? Why demand the impossible?
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vitally3643 17 days ago
We put humans on the moon and we've seen the first galaxies ever born
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brendanmc6 17 days ago
Progress is a fiction? What an enraging and awful take. You are living in a world that is so extraordinarily safe, comfortable, populous, peaceful, free and entertaining your ancestors literally would not believe you if you told them. Most of your ancestors worked ten times as hard to access a tiny fraction of the material wealth and health and knowledge most people have today. Touch grass.
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WalterBright 17 days ago
Maybe watch the TV series "Alone" and see if you want to do that. But even they have excellent clothing, high tech knives, saws, and axes, and so on.

> while the poor stay poor

America's poor are the wealthiest poor people in history.

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