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RedCanasta
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This sounds great but is this part of the reason for so many developed and over-developed countries to not want to pay outright to help the global south?
Wiping away debts instead of giving actual aid? I mean Cape Verde's contribution to global pollution is negligible compared to Portugal, but at least it's a step in the right direction, however sideways it is.
Almost every comment I've seen sees the future as hopeless and I'm going to largely chalk that up to the postmodernism/realism consciousness in our society at this time period.
I think the future will be a utopia, and there isn't a long term (I mean centuries or millenia long developments) reason to think otherwise. The idea of utopia has pushed civilization to confront power structures and create new ones, to rethink what was impossible, too difficult to accomplish, etc. The many rights, freedoms, and ideas that many around the world take for granted today began as people envisioning a utopia and trying to make it happen. These ideas can't be done away with as Alexis De Tocqueville saw.
Right now there are problems for sure, and I personally think liberty and egality are only a parody of utopia at this point, but that'll change over a long time.
Human civilization is only 6000 years old! We're still working with the brain of primitive humans, and we aren't even toddlers yet in the grand lifespan of Earth. I think people tend to forget that sometimes.
We'll get to a better place, and our consciousness is always changing to confront the problems we face today (biosphere collapse, resource hoarding, infighting, etc).
Democracy took centuries to develop coherently, and even then it failed MANY times at first. But look at it now.
Access to culture itself if you think about it
I'm actually against reparations. All this talk of reparations will do is divide and drive us further from cooperation, which is the last thing we need right now.
If it means building a more sustainable and healthy future, let's overlook the money and historical damage for now.
Is this really news?
So if I get locked out of a car, I'm suddenly worthy of making headlines? There are bigger things to draw attention to than this.
Howdy!
1848? I'm of the opinion violent revolution is becoming inevitable, and inequality is only one piece of the mosaic for that opinion.
Maybe this time modern history will start to turn again...
I've been using Soulseek for a few years now and it's been awesome with no issues
No we've evolved to cook our food, not necessarily kill.
Let's make a movie about it and then pirate it
That is awesome! I should take my camera out and try to snag a pic