/lit/ - Literature

>>13385155
Yes, and that comfort was at the cost of the planet. We sacrificed tomorrow for today, and that is Ted's entire fucking point. The moral and spiritual decay of the average person living in an advanced civilization is just a side effect.

Global warming and environmental destruction were the real threats all along, and Mr. Kaczynski is 100% correct in his prediction. We're hurtling towards a mass extinction event at an unprecedented rate thanks to our ceaseless greed and flimsy justifications for abusing technology and bringing on the industrial age.

We're just now getting the hang of researching renewable energy, but it's already too late, the gears are set in motion and we're going to witness the severe decline of humanity within our lifetimes. The rate at which we consume oil continues to rise with our still unchecked overpopulation crisis, but we think installing a few windmills and solar panels is going to fix it. It's not. We're growing out of control and the planet just can't handle it. If we all united under one banner and worked cooperatively towards addressing these problems, the future will still suck, but it won't be too bad. But guess what we're not doing? Guess who's too distracted by stock rates and capital and equities and other made-up economic terms to give a shit about the ground that we walk on and grow our food from?

It's going to take a while, but there is enough evidence to prove that we're already fucked.

That's what Ted was warning us about.

How do we get rid of materialism?
It's supposed to be a tool of understanding, not understanding itself. Nowadays everywhere we only get reductionist a neopositivist jargon. Neuro-this and neuro-that. Wissenschaft denkst nicht. It is not a matter of religion or /x/, nor the will to prove that Succubus, for instance, are real. It is, though, a matter of this STEM point of view being suffocating.