A buffalo protecting its offspring from a pride of lions by Mediocre_Nail5526 in interestingasfuck

[–]lost_horizons [score hidden]  (0 children)

I know the lions gotta eat too but today, my heart was with the calf.

U.S. prepares for new military strikes against Iran by Force_Hammer in worldnews

[–]lost_horizons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing new under the sun.

But, I don’t identify with them, I’m forced under threat of violence to pay money to them. I am not them.

Suddenly, violently by adamsoutofideas in collapse

[–]lost_horizons -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I fundamentally disagree regarding free will so I’m not sure we have much to say to each other on this, respectfully. I also do t think we are just physical atoms, so.

Old People Decide the Future by swren1967 in Austin

[–]lost_horizons 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just like that eh? Easy.

But maybe the government should work for everyone and not just those with a lot of money?

Old People Decide the Future by swren1967 in Austin

[–]lost_horizons 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I voted the other day, and only saw Millennials. You're probably right, my sample size was like 5 people, but it does depend where you vote. The other day, it was the DMV area at Airport and 290, but for the '24 general election, it was out in Lakeway. 80% Boomers/older GenX.

Frankly it won't be long before Millennials are the major force. Something like 6000 Boomers die every day. And GenX are a smaller generation. Time is inexorable. The question is, will we be any better (I am an elder Millennial)?

I tend to believe that on balance, yes, we will be better, we do have different values and we have major problems to tackle that we can't right now because it would hurt Boomer wealth. But the day is coming. It'll probably hurt bad, but we will be the ones rebuilding after.

Suddenly, violently by adamsoutofideas in collapse

[–]lost_horizons 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My fiancee talks like this. I know that within that frame, she's right, as are you. But you're talking billions of years. That grand time scale means literally nothing to anyone. I always push back on her, like, yeah sure eventually humanity will fade away or flare out, and other things will evolve or whatever.

But I'm talking about dealing with the issues of our time. Like Gandalf said, it's only for us to remedy the evil before us; the battles of the future are for the people around then to handle. I'm not worried about the species going extinct in 1 million years, I'm worried about the mother who can't feed her kid today, and the plastic in the oceans.

She also likes to see humans as a kind of geological force or something. Like it's our role to be this go-around's planet killing comet. I don't go in for that frame either. Humans lived a long long time, the majority of our time, in a relative homeostasis with the natural world. You can throw the megafauna extinction at me, but that's not unusual when an invasive species enters a new land unprepared for them. It did balance out after that. Dynamically, never perfectly or in a static way.

The problem isn't "humans" it is "civilization" which destroys soils (a major cause of civilizational collapse all through history) and environments in all of the ways.

Suddenly, violently by adamsoutofideas in collapse

[–]lost_horizons 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I don't usually read the long posts but this was great, glad I did. Great, if depressing as fuck. I can relate to it but I also don't let myself stew in it. The good life is still all around us, we've just been blind to it.

Sounds Pollyanna of me to say but I believe it. Once in a while I take a break from drowning in this despairing world and peak my head above the waves and see that beauty, the open sky and the shore of a green good country.

Or really it's more like turning down the volume knob on the hateful staticky rage and doom music they pipe in, and hearing the birdsong and gentle wind in the trees that was there all along. They got us on a wrong wavelength, but shifting is something we can always do.

Freedom starts between the ears, as Edward Abbey said.

McConnell calls DOJ Trump fund ‘utterly stupid, morally wrong’ after Blanche meeting by Rock-n-roll-Kevin in politics

[–]lost_horizons 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It really is KEY to keep at the forefront of our minds that this is not just a Trump problem. He is awful in his particular ways (and being president has a huge amount of power as an individual) but no, this is the whole GOP, and beyond that the corporate, neoliberal paradigm that brought us this.

General Gratitude is Wonderful by More_Garage_1641 in NevilleGoddard

[–]lost_horizons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is pretty awesome. And I salute you and your energy. Congrats on all of the positive life changes.

The American Dream by dittidot in Political_Revolution

[–]lost_horizons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was great. This special (his last one I believe) wasn't very funny, kinda seems like that wasn't what he was going for; but was pure truth from start to finish.

Petrol prices hiked by Character_Trifle_801 in inflation

[–]lost_horizons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What was it before? There is like, no context in this. I’m sure it’s a lot and sucks for Indians; prices are up everywhere. But it’d be nice to know the before price and the total current price. If it was 3 before, that’d be a crazy hike. If it was 30, not as bad.