‘Praying For Armageddon’ Review: A Chilling Look At The Pastors, Politicians and Power Brokers Agitating for Apocalypse, Now
‘Praying For Armageddon’ Review: A Chilling Look At The Pastors, Politicians and Power Brokers Agitating for Apocalypse, Now
If for any reason you’ve recently been feeling complacent about global security, international relations and oh, you know, little things like the continued existence of the species, here to h…
My brother in Christ, helluva people, especially young, religious or not, wish openly or secretly for some sort of apocalypse, reset of civilization, zombie pandemics and so on and so forth.
I am not religious, but I honestly think that the best thing that could happen, overall, is humanity killing ourselves off. We're a net negative for almost everything else on this planet.
The difference is that I, and all - or at least, the vast majority - of the folks you refer to aren't actively trying to make it happen.
Good day friend. Everything is a net negative in the grand calculus of the universe. The entropic force has a super high K/D ratio. Humans are not the problem. We are all headed towards the heat death of the universe with near zero chance for persistence beyond it.
With that said, we are the only beings that demonstrate an understanding of that probable future; And are thus the only beings possibly capable of doing anything about it.
Oppenheimer didn't think the atom could be split. He was wrong. We do not think the fundimental forces of the universe can be overcome. We may be wrong, but if we perish before we get the chance to know for sure, it would be biggest tragedy of the universe.
You said you "think" in the same way that a religious person uses "believe". Thinking and believing are essentially positions held because of lack of evidence. There are mountains of evidence that demonstrate humans should persist. Every century of humanity's existence has lengthened our lives and enhanced our standards of living. Our trajectory is not into the grave, it's into the stars.
Slavoj Zizek wrote that zombie stories like WWZ and the Living Dead movies are popular is because it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. People have so absorbed Thatcher’s “There is no alternative” that the only alternative we can picture is the literal destruction of society itself.