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  • I don’t know exactly what to call it and I don’t want to sound like my agenda is just anti-capitalism. For a brief, 250yr period, humanity (not all, but enough of) valued science and reasoned law as the highest, most advanced expressions of our civilization. The enlightenment age brought about modernity as we know it based on science and liberal law (no kings above the law). Now we’ve devolved back to every nation basically establishing new oligarchich aristocracies no law can touch (the historic normal), and it’s definitely too late to correct course. No untouchable nobilities or kings will save this realm. So yeah, the great filter in my view is about letting elites be accountable to no one, with no interest other than accretion, rule things into the ground. And yeah that’s the broad gist of my point about a pretty broad theory. Most think the great filter as an asteroid or nuke. For me it’s runaway elitism that probably ends most civilizations which is why there’s no one out there.











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    4 months ago

    I don’t get this. US students actually organizing and protesting for… not their future, not their rights being stripped away, not their country completely hijacked by vain billionaires. No. The hill they chose is… whatever TikTok told them to care about.

    And even if they do get a ‘Free Palestine’. It’ll just go and consolidate itself as the arab world’s umpteenth extremist Islamic theocracy.