The world is facing unprecedented challenges: climate change, nuclear proliferation, the impending dissolution of NATO, AI, and social media. Will our civilization survive the coming decades? (3,100w)
Nah Émile, you’re wrong. The Doomsday Clock will NOT move because Trump will post on Truth Social saying:
“THE BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS WILL NOT BE MOVING THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK!!! I HAVE SPOKEN TO ALL OF THEM AND THEY ALL NOW AGREE THEY WERE SUFFERING FROM TDS, AND WILL NOW MOVE IT TO 1 BILLION YEARS TO MIDNIGHT. ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE IS SPREADING FAKE NEWS AND IS ALSO PROBABLY A LIBERAL. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Come on Émile, get your head in the game. You’ve been in Europe for far too long.
Thanks Emile. Your analysis appears to me spot on. Regardless of the Doomsday clock or what the Bulletin does with it, we, the world, are living in very dire times. I was a Cold Warrior, when cloaked hostilities between the USSR were at their peak and the prospect of global nuclear war was always on our minds. Since the early 90's that prospect had largely retreated. Until now. Trump is a deranged megalomaniac being fed a constant stream of batshit crazy megalomaniacal lunacy from an equally deranged Steven Miller. And we are only a year into this nightmare. I do not see how this ends well, for anyone.
You know what’s scary? It’s not impossible that insidious forces conspire to somehow make them move it backwards. That’s how far into la-la land we are.
Wondering about the differences between your chosen label of "plutocratic oligarchy" vs "competitive authoritarian regime" (which I'm noticing pop up). Maybe at this point, it's not urgent to parse these things, everything is in such rapid motion and evolving before our eyes.
But I am curious, so perhaps that might come up for you to extrapolate on in another post! 🙌
It’s oddly therapeutic to read your articles about impeding doom, climate catastrophe and civilization collapse. It makes me feel a little less insane. Like, "you guys are seeing it too right? How we’re speeding towards a cliff?" I guess in a way it makes sense not to panic about it, the same way we don’t panic about the fact that we’re all eventually gonna die, death itself being an end of the world scenario for each of us. The difference is death is inevitable, destroying the planet isn’t. But because of the ideological triumph of capitalism and individualism, it’s easier for so many people to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current political-economic system.
Nah Émile, you’re wrong. The Doomsday Clock will NOT move because Trump will post on Truth Social saying:
“THE BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS WILL NOT BE MOVING THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK!!! I HAVE SPOKEN TO ALL OF THEM AND THEY ALL NOW AGREE THEY WERE SUFFERING FROM TDS, AND WILL NOW MOVE IT TO 1 BILLION YEARS TO MIDNIGHT. ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE IS SPREADING FAKE NEWS AND IS ALSO PROBABLY A LIBERAL. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Come on Émile, get your head in the game. You’ve been in Europe for far too long.
/s!!!
LOLOL!!!
Thanks Emile. Your analysis appears to me spot on. Regardless of the Doomsday clock or what the Bulletin does with it, we, the world, are living in very dire times. I was a Cold Warrior, when cloaked hostilities between the USSR were at their peak and the prospect of global nuclear war was always on our minds. Since the early 90's that prospect had largely retreated. Until now. Trump is a deranged megalomaniac being fed a constant stream of batshit crazy megalomaniacal lunacy from an equally deranged Steven Miller. And we are only a year into this nightmare. I do not see how this ends well, for anyone.
You know what’s scary? It’s not impossible that insidious forces conspire to somehow make them move it backwards. That’s how far into la-la land we are.
I like to think the Bulletin is impervious to that sort of thing, but, yeah, who the heck knows! Unprecedented times. :-/
Wondering about the differences between your chosen label of "plutocratic oligarchy" vs "competitive authoritarian regime" (which I'm noticing pop up). Maybe at this point, it's not urgent to parse these things, everything is in such rapid motion and evolving before our eyes.
But I am curious, so perhaps that might come up for you to extrapolate on in another post! 🙌
Will America even survive the 21st century is a legitimate question for me.
Will civilization as a whole survive the 21st century?
It’s oddly therapeutic to read your articles about impeding doom, climate catastrophe and civilization collapse. It makes me feel a little less insane. Like, "you guys are seeing it too right? How we’re speeding towards a cliff?" I guess in a way it makes sense not to panic about it, the same way we don’t panic about the fact that we’re all eventually gonna die, death itself being an end of the world scenario for each of us. The difference is death is inevitable, destroying the planet isn’t. But because of the ideological triumph of capitalism and individualism, it’s easier for so many people to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current political-economic system.
there is yet another reason:
What happens when geopolitics, philosophy, and a man in a bathtub collide—mandatory reading for the coherently confused
https://open.substack.com/pub/antonpalisar/p/the-unified-theory-of-everything?r=74rb1l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true