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LadyAnarki t1_j1jb4s0 wrote

Reply to comment by RobleViejo in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo

Little one, your own life is the only thing you have. So what if humanity dies out in 500 years? Or 100? Or the planet is destroyed? Or an alien race comes and murders us all? This is one life experience out of millions that you've had. One planet out of trillions. One moment within infinity. The life of a species is 1 second. Old species die and new species are born every day.

You've gone too deep and it's time to zoom out and look at the galactic picture. You know when you read for too long and your eyes and head start to hurt from looking at the little words? That's where you are. Put the book down and look around you. The world is much bigger than just those words. And so is the universe. Humanity IS making progress even if it doesn't look like it to some because media amplifies the negative instead of celebrating the positive.

And the what ifs don't serve you. They don't serve any of us and they definitely don't serve Earth. Your only "job" is to love fully, live fully, experience the joys of existence, and leave this world a better place than it was before by your actions and words. Focusing on the problems & researching them to death is counterproductive & time wasted when you could be out planting trees or cleaning up rivers or showing compassion to the people you have lost hope in.

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Level3Kobold t1_j1li1mi wrote

>you could be out planting trees or cleaning up rivers

Good individuals cannot counteract bad systems without first destroying those systems.

If you're suggesting OP focus on solutions, planting trees and picking garbage out of rivers by hand aren't the solutions that will solve anything. Not while corporations are dumping tons of waste into ecosystems, or massacring the local fauna.

Planting a tree and thinking you've done your part is just a coping mechanism to help you ignore the systemic problem. Recycling bins are the opiate of the masses.

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LadyAnarki t1_j1m0cxj wrote

Recycling is a scam, and I didn't suggest it. But if a person went out every day for 5 years and planted 10 trees or created a food forest in their neighborhood or invented a trash collecting device for a lake or ocean (as people have already done) or changed their lawn into a bee garden or grew their own food - yes that would make a huge impact on their local ecology. And if everyone did that, the world would actually change. Good people can do anything. They are the ones who change the world in massive ways.

If you want to break the system, stop paying taxes, shopping at corps or corp adjacent companies, and stop using fiat currencies like the dollar. Money is the foundation of any society, and corrupt money creates corrupt societies. The world monetary system is on the verge of collapse, and a rather large group of people globally are helping push it to its demise while building a parallel financial system. That group started with less than 10 people 13 years ago.

Your defeatist naysaying is honestly really boring. Pick another solution; I don't care, but becoming a nihilist isn't one of them.

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