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In reply to the discussion: To the older folks at DU from a 20-year-old, about protests, confusion, and love for one another [View all]PATRICK
(12,228 posts)Hyperbole? Depends how long this point takes to resolve. On the one hand you have you have the race to or from extinction. On the other you have the definite end of human history and civilization as we have know it, especially the last ten thousand years.
Today? This is like 1940, before the war shots got fired, the phony peace/war. Or before WWI when the archduke is getting into his carriage.
Life is still pretty good and pretty doomed to change. And the wise and powerful are hapless saps to do anything about it, the parable of human nature in a world of their own that is unsustainable, impossible for man to survive.
Yet we have the global communications, education and science to meet the challenge. Genetics will take us to a new level- but not through super soldiers or immortal elites(just a doubling down of the usual social apocalypse mankind has always experienced).
Whatever the future our age has one task. To put down the senile madness of the past evils, keep them down while we work through real problems with moral intelligence. It's not "give peace a chance". It's give everything good a chance and make sure the crap has little or no say ion the matter. Climate change alone has closed debate on the matter.