It was called “The Enlightenment,” but then we forgor….

We made it way too easy for morons to get online. Folks who don’t even know what a “packet” is can livestream their anus on TikTok, and capitalism is fine with that because it’s “monetized”.

I’m pretty sure future historians are gonna end up calling this the “Misinformation Age” instead.

If the earth is flat, what is at the center? Is North America at the center? I once tried projecting the NASA high res earth texture onto a flat disc in blender, for a laugh, and quickly ran into that problem. If the earth is flat, then how are the continents arranged, such that travel times AND the travel of celestial objects and constellations makes sense?

Just ask a person who thinks the earth is flat to scientifically prove it. They can’t.

A person can use a lake and a pair of binoculars to calculate the circumference of the spherical earth.

Only because people misuse it. As people of Earth, born and beholden to the dirt itself, technology and science should be used to better connect ourselves with nature and help facilitate relations between all things, for the benefit of all things. Instead, we use technology and science to distance ourselves from nature, coming from the false assumption that we are somehow seperate from or above nature. It is beyond human control, always has been, and it won’t be long until the relations and environment will cut those arrogant humans down to size in what they call “a catastrophe of global proportions.” We are not special, unless discussing how especially weak humans are - weakness to provide food for ourselves and relying on reason and intellect is what makes special. Humans only survived as long as we have due to our ability to understand the relations of our world, and our ecological niche is to help facilitate those relations not just between people, but the mountains and the water and the birds. Instead we turn that mountain into gravel and call it “development”, pollute our water by using it as coolant for a factory, silence the bird songs more and more each year, and reduce human beings into “workers.” This is true whether you’re right or left, capitalist or socialist, there is no “revolution” within that mindset, only continuation. Industrialism at all costs because “science will find a way” will doom us.

There is another way, a way that understands we have no right to take from mother nature. That wealth is meaningless unless you give it away. I dream of a solarpunk world where buildings are grown, where food grows literally everywhere, with massive urban metropolises that resemble rainforests, where cities are built to clean water instead of pollute it, where technology can genetically supercharge trees so that they grow solarcell leaves to power our homes, where education is exploration, where all animals have right to roam, where we understand our living biosphere so well we’re able to replicate that process on other planets. Why are we even considering space travel if we don’t even know how to live on our own planet? Why do we create these gadgets and gizmos only for competitive profits and not the betterment of mankind? Why do we require people to have money for food and teaching them how to obey their superiors at a workplace, instead of teaching people how to grow their own food and learning about the relations of natural things? Why aren’t we investing as much into lab-grown meat as we are into killing animals? It all goes back to our attitude towards nature, and this horrible religious mindset that thinks we are god.

Man when i was a kid and i stared to see these assembly robot arms, i was like: woah, when i’m like 30, people probably don’t work anymore, because that’s what the robots do.

When i was 30 rich people crashed the economy and shrugged, and now ultra rich still try to get even richer, and kill the planet, because they don’t live that long anyway

Not only that but setting up the institutions of our society to prevent it happening again

He really DOES resemble bad 1985 Biff, doesn’t he?