Some of them, and many of the silicone Valley overlords, clearly have a God-complex. They are chasing things that used to be characteristics of the divine. Eternal life. All-seing, and all-knowing. Creating life.I know the super rich are wacky - trying to live forever, become young again,
Where is this bongos reverbed bongos line from?
the bbc would publish thisWhat do you sourpusses make of this?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving
What do you sourpusses make of this?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving
Meanwhile, news anchors, “decent citizens,” and politicians from the left to the right are foaming at the mouth over the looming danger posed by this “enemy within.” Anti-terror legislation, anti-radicalization campaigns and an even bigger boost to the omnipresent surveillance apparatus are supposed to turn the tide, to stamp out this rot that has infected the very core of paradise. But what they will never understand is that it is this very society that they so desperately seek to protect, with its ritualized work-party-sleep-repeat cycle, its endless sequence of hyped non-events and its almost totalitarian imperative to “enjoy,” which produces its own nightmares. When middle class youth from sleepy villages in the heartlands of Europe decide to take up arms for a brutal racket offering little more than a sea of beheadings and a death under the unforgiving Levantine sun, little else is left to be said about the supposed “triumph” of progress, capitalism and liberal democracy. In the words of a Canadian imam whose young students took off to fight for the IS: “When you don’t find purpose and meaning in life, the only thing you look forward to is death.”
area's affected most by climate change lay in the global south, the periphery that is already being exploited and stolen of its wealth. there will still be plenty of land to live on in case of climate change i think. we're talking about 1-5% of the global population. they don't have any reason to be frightened i think.
Violent aggressive rap music used to cheer me up but now bartys convinced them all to go psychedelic and make baby noises.
It's time to cheer ourselves up with some Don Delillo and William Burroughs and Autechre!
Woohooooo
Maybe true - interested in the precise details of what that deal might be though if you can elaborate.Today's mass anxieties and depression is the price secular societies have to pay.
I've never met anyone with less insight into their own internal processes than you so I'm not taking this as evidence of anything in particular. Your needs and emotions are an undiscovered continent.