• cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    9 days ago

    I just wish I could see how life goes on without me. How our world changes in the future beyond my limited time on this planet.

    I think about people who lived hundreds of years ago. How they couldn’t even imagine the scientific and technological advancements that we have. And then I think about hundreds of years into the future. What changes will be so extreme and advanced that I can’t even imagine it today?

    I wish there was some way for me to glimpse into that future and see where society is heading. Will we expand out to the stars? Will we be extinct long before we leave this planet? What’s the ultimate future for humanity? These are questions I want to know, but will never get a chance to find out, unless everyone but me dies out in the next 30-40 years. And I highly doubt that’s gonna happen.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
      3·
      9 days ago

      I don’t want just to see the future, but the past as well. Would be nice to witness some unadulterated historical moments.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Almost the same except we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.

      People needlessly suffer and die painfully simply because VERY few of us want control and many more keep repeating the lies that those few have created to control us.

      Watching it play out ad naseum once you’re aware of the farce makes it depressing to watch and it makes you realize how easy it is to control human behavior to the point where repeated genocides are ignored enough to allow them to happen.

      I want to know if there will ever be a time when manufactured narratives & consent doesn’t control the lives of humanity and it might make the nothingness of death a little bit easier to stomach knowing that it’ll come to pass.

      • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        […] we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.

        Yeah, this has been my fear lately. As a kid in the '80s/'90s, I had high hopes for humanity. I loved space travel stories; read so many science fiction books, watched Star Trek/Star Wars, loved space films of all genres…

        But lately, I’ll be happy if we ever make it to Mars. The one person who had a dedicated mission to get a man on Mars turned out to be a self-destructing billionaire sociopath who seems to have abandoned that dream for political meddling aspirations instead.

        If we can get capitalism out of the way, humanity might have a chance at bouncing back. But as long as a few powerful elites maintain control over society, our hopes and dreams will forever be redirected toward financial gains until the collapse of society.

        On the plus side, even Rome, the most stable and advanced civilization outside of our own, eventually collapsed. Humanity survived and eventually went on to thrive once again, doing even better this time. By the historical timeline of the birth and death of civilizations, America is long overdue for a collapse. Maybe we’re about to see a global change that will reset our predicament and give us another chance to succeed. If we can learn from our past.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          our oligarchy now has control over a majority of this planet compared to control roman control over the mediterranean and the decline will likewise be proportionately slow and destructive as rome’s was.

          i suspect that the next reset is going to involve whole new climate changed induced civilizations from the fallout and that’s presuming that humanity can survive another population bottleneck.

          and all simply because we keep repeating the oligarchy’s talking points to each other like they’re unassailable logic.

  • Nora@lemmy.ml
    12·
    9 days ago

    There is no “know” after you die. Best to know before you die. After there is nothing.

  • PiecePractical@midwest.social
    8·
    9 days ago

    OMG! So many things. I’d probably spend months looking through the stats of my life alone. But first, dinosaurs! What did they actually look like? How did they act? What actually killed them?

  • andallthat@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 days ago

    If I know anything at all after I’m dead, I will already have the answer to the biggest question from all major religions