The world is in a bad place right now, but it was even worse of when we are right at the edge of global nuclear war in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Before that the world was on the verge of falling in the early 1940s to fascist rule of Hitler and the Emperor of Japan with most of Europe occupied and concentration camps exterminating thousands of innocent people a day.
As bad as it is today, we’ve had worse, and we made it through it to better times. It won’t come without effort, but humanity will get through this too.
Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen. Climate change is an apocalypse that is happening.
Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.
Physics -> chemistry -> biology. The further you zoom in, the more you come to grips with the just staggering number of hugely improbable events that lead to us being here. I feel bad for people who need to invoke religion to explain this, as it really hides the beauty of it all.
Improbable? Maybe on the odds for one isolated event happening. But considering the vast amount of the universe there is, to me it seems more and more inevitable.
Rage Against The Machine
So like a reverse Last Week Tonight?
This book is currently boosting my morale:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453652/not-the-end-of-the-world-by-ritchie-hannah/9781529931242
This one for me: https://plurality.net/
Discusses how to strengthen democracy using the very things that are currently weakening it
