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Jeff Syrop's avatar

How terrifying it is that we have a pretty clear idea of what rock bottom will look like: devastation and immense suffering (legions of blind people! rotting bodies everywhere! mass starvation) from nuclear war, or a rapidly warming planet with billions of climate refugees and immense political upheaval, or both ... plus plagues.

Hieronymus Bosch glimpsed the future when he painted THIS in 1495: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch#/media/File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg

The living will envy the dead.

This is another great piece by Caitlin. She manages to nail it almost every time. I guess we've got to hope our Earth will be that 1 out of 50 methheads who actually kicks the drug, stays clean, and ends up having a good and meaningful life.

Betting aliens just happen to be giving these very odds that human civilization will survive the next 10 years: 50 to 1 against.

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John Pretty's avatar

Hieronymous Bosch imagined a future. As you are doing.

The future - whatever it may hold - only exists in your head.

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Jeff Syrop's avatar

Tell that to the people in Ukraine right now. Even a zen master repairs a roof that's leaking on his head, or bald tires that threaten the lives of his children.

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