What is Wrong With Our Culture - Alan Watts

Agent. Smith was right. humanity is a virus. there's really no point to identifying our problem.
 
We shouldn't restrict ourselves to our little mudball. We should get gone. We're always going to have the same problems we have now because we're always going to be the same people. Look at our past. It's always been like it is. We've just changed technology. Nothing has ever been simpler or more complicated than it is today. As a people our values may change, our religions and everything else but in the end we're still people.

We could wind up nuking ourselves into oblivion one day and any aliens who might stumble across our planet might find our remains but if we can spread out beyond the planet we would have a far better chance of surviving and changing. We've come close so many times to just having a nuclear war annihilating us that it's stopped even being scary to us. If we can have some sort of start elsewhere we could have a chance to become something else.

Given your assessment of humanity, what makes you think leaving earth will solve it? Either way it's about population control vs resources available. Either it's our societal structures that need to evolve with our increase population. Either we control our population, or nature will.
 

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