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I want to critique Qatar but I'm currently struggling with this Irish wristwatch
There is something so i n f u r i a t i n g about this approach to "long-term" thinking.
The real problems may be obvious to everyone and have material solutions, but the fundamental problems are a long way off, inevitable, and can only be solved by giving me all the money please.
If these cretins actually cared about Robo-Satan or "civilizational depopulation" or whatever, they would still be doing - I don't know - something about climate change, about food insecurity, about energy generation, some sort of ecological husbandry. Because it would really be a pinch if you wind up having to fight Robo-Satan and rising sea-levels at the same time. Because the short-term becomes the long-term.
But they don't actually care about it. Like :matt-jokerfied: says, it's Calvinism without that inconvenient "God" stuff.
it isn't just matt saying that. Those people actually consider themselves secular calvinists. How hollow do you have to be in order to think that that is a good thing?
