/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11625792
Not him, but if your outlook is so grim I suggest looking at entire our history as a species. Only 70 years ago the world's most advanced nations were hurling bombs at each other and killing themselves by the tens of millions. 70 years. We've been mass killing each other as long as we've existed as a species (so what's that, 250k - 500k years?) only until the mid 1940s. Democratic governments are still a very new development and even then there are more people living in democratic states than ever before. Sure you can argue about the tit for tat of "is x country violating y human right" but put that into perspective that the very idea of human rights at all has only been around for a couple hundred years. Shit, slavery was still a common thing in the civilized world until just over 100-200 years ago.

Pic related is just one instance of how on the grand scale, things are better today than you could even conceive just 100 or 200 years ago. We have more material wealth, more security, longer lives, less starvation and disease than ever before. Our problems are minor compared to even a couple generations ago. Yes a lot of people have chosen to use that unprecedented wealth to just sustain themselves and entertain themselves to death with the newest black ops but up until only 200 years ago most of the people in the world were farmers anyway. The amount of intelligent and motivated people solving problems today is 10 fold what it was a couple decades ago and will continue to increase.

It's never been a winning strategy to bet against the ingenuity of the human race and never will be.

>>10743706
nope nope and nope