A CurtisC check from my third eye

I am often smoking weed from a bubbler with my wife and her dad in the garage in the morning to meditate, close my eyes and envision about life and curious about thoughts that are often trailing my mind about anything random.

It will be neat how active my thread could become if others could answer my questions for me and I can offer the same to you. So here is my first random thought of the day:

Do you think humanity with the way it is now in the western world, will last in the next century? If so, what culture would be the main tyrannical government structure?

If anyone understand, I would love to read ones thoughts. Thank you.

 

well everything will keep changing and hopefully anything faschist, if it come to power, won't last any longer or even as long as it did.
i really don't believe that is what will replace what we're familiar with, or that if it does, it will only do so briefly.
what we have now will continue to modify itself, but the environment and a head on collision with human population isn't going to be avoided entirely.
i don't believe, from what i can see, that wannabe fascism is as popular as it wants to think it is, and that the influences that have given rise to it will change too.
it came from our prisons and our churches mostly, and well we cannot eliminate these institutions entirely, clearly from observing their result, we are doing both of them wrong.
and its not matter of harshness, to much or too little, but of focus and purpose. neither vengence nor forgiveness but removing incentives for the culture of distructive perspectives.

the population thing is one of the influences, because being too firtile for our longevity is our curse, and since i have no wish to live shorter more brutal lives, the answer must lie in lowering firtility, accross the board without bias or exception. so that in this way birth rate can be lowered such as to no longer exceed mortality, without any sort of nuclear or other pan genocide.

also for this reason, same gender sex, which has no appeal to me personally, but a very good thing in this regard as it also helps lower birthrate. though not alone sufficiently.
for this reason more widely normalized and universally accepted as the not unknown to nature thing that it is.

it all ties together. the popular reluctance to move to more widely utilize more and better public transportation instead of forcing reliance on personal vihicles, which is a cash cow for the banks as almost no one can afford to purchase them for cash oughtright, is one of those factors driving fossle fuel consumption and its resulting environmental degridation.

building codes is another, i mean enforcing them on rural owner-occupants, not letting people improvise personal shelter unregulated, is another funnel forcing dependence on lending institutions, which is a non-freedom.

these things which annoy people motivate their wanting changes, but unfortunately doesn't motivate them enough to think about what kind of changes they want, what they will be like to live with.

one thing, i would not call anything that perpetuates the dominance of aggressiveness "civilization". nor can i nor do i, trust anything that wishes to be feared.

what i see a long way down the line, after environmental implosion brings our current species to extinction or near enough to it, is genetic alteration to our appeareance.
so what i see emerging long after the soon to be problems, sort of like indiginous, but with some infrastructure, like an internet, possibly with servers in orbital satalites,
a bit like leguinne's always coming home, and solar powered narrow gauge railways linking small and highly unique and diverse villages in which a much smaller sapient population will happily live.

post capitalist institutions will be unfamiliar perhaps to anything we have now, but not fascist. the people who want to live in a violent world culture, will be the first to destroy themselves and each other. it will be painful until they do, but they will, and again it can also be easily seen that even our current population and culture don't want the kind of world they are ignorantly attempting to replace our current imperfections with shere horror.

nothing ever becomes all one way, not matter how hard it tries, but some things do fall by the wayside and get mostly forgotten.

 

Wow! Thank you so much for your lengthy reply.

I will get back to you to observe everything you said and help understand a bit better what you've said. You have a great mind full of meticulous observance.

 

themnax is astute and very cool. He hit most of the important issues facing humanity in the next decade, much less the next century. Those are less predictable.

I see much of the world being like Haiti is now. The rich will live in enclaves, much like castles of old. Others on mega yachts. But I doubt they can hold out long. They won't be able to escape to space or mars either.

As society breaks down it won't be pretty. War lords will rule fiefdoms fighting with other warlords. Like gang wars in urban areas, but unable to coalese into a unified force. Like Mad Max vs. Terminator. Scarce resources will see that nobody prevails as humanity descends into tribalism.

Famine and pestilence will reduce the population in much of the world.

And no it won't recover in a century because of the long term effects of pollution and climate change.

Technology will prevail over humanity. Drone warfare will be common until resources dwindle. Medicine will perform miracles few can afford.

By the time most of humanity wakes up to smell the decay of what man has wrought it will be far too late to ameliorate.

 

With your personal tolerances of this type of living, can you learn to laugh at this rather than think of a life of depression like this? I am always trying to laugh to please myself rather than worry all my days of life with anxiety.

If more smoked weed, in theory, people would be better at understanding rather than always quiet and only guessing to know with judgement and what others have taught you. Respect everyone how you would like to be respected and life won't be so bad, right? Life should not be about terminator and judgement day with AI universe in the next couple decades. People should work together. Learn to pact with each other rather than despise by class.

Again, just random thoughts of mine that I see as I smoke this 8pm bowl of kief. If they seem to trail off or not much detail to follow, I apologize.

 

AI is already showing it's malevolent side. Just like some of the humans who use it. So don't count on it. It can help in medicine, materials, bioengineering, etc. But it's the human condition that is terminal.

By looking on the darkside once in awhile you aren't surprised or disappointed when some bad things go down.

People been looking on the bright side so long, they're blinded by their own technology to what is really going down. Too late for tears and regrets gen X, gen Z and us boomers.

 

i'm not so sure the side most people have been looking on is all that bright.
our universe has the impartiality of indifference, and the unknown being unknown prevents neither good nor bad.
we have choices though, and many are called biological imperatives as an excuse to not do the mental homework to understand how things really work
(which isn't hierarchical, btw)
the avoidance of expectations is the way to avoid disappointments, which is also, a thing that sometimes takes a little work, not something i can deny.
the root of most, if not every, anxiety in life, is someone or some several, which may but not always include ourselves, choosing to be aggressively inconsiderate,
and i believe it is a choice, and being a choice, none of us need to shame ourselves by doing so.
and because of this, more of the good side, is possible. but of course, designing anything, you do have to take into account every worst case possibility and failure mode,
if you want to make sure it works the way intended, so in that sense, maybe that is what is meant by people not so much looking at only the bright side,
but perhaps on occasion overly expecting it.
but if you don't ever look at the good side, at the goodness of the reality of the diversity of the possible, that seems to me a needlessly miserable way to go through life.