QatzelOk wrote:Living in our age means realizing that you're not important.
What a beautiful and enlightened time to be alive, One Degree. We should all be grateful to our oligarchs for ignoring human beings because, well, they're just not that important. Only the rich and famous deserve to survive, and Trump knows this. He plays with our minds, but he knows this one important thing.
Only supermodels and billionaires will survive the last years of our species existence on this planet. And they will do this at a Planet Hollywood resort in Brazil.
Actually, the opposite belief is the new one. Baby boomers were the first generation to start putting their individual importance above family, community, and the future of humanity. It was common not to view yourself as all that important. Even when I was a kid, being called ‘conceited’ was a terrible insult. Today, conceit is the norm.
Viewing yourself as part of something larger does not diminish you, it makes you more egalitarian. Not the fake egalitarianism of today based upon group power and individual rights, but the real thing as it applies to the future of humanity.
I dream of the United Citystates of Earth, where each Citystate has a standardized border such as one whole degree of Latitude by one whole degree of Longitude.