While the global population is still growing, a major study from 2020 predicts it will peak in 2064 and then fall by nearly a billion people by the end of the century.
I'm glad you like it. I should really try to get back into writing now that my mental health has been getting better. It sounds self-important, but one of my favorite ways of helping people is to share what I've learned from my studies of philosophy, spirituality, and life itself, in order to make living just a bit easier/more palatable. While Schopenhauer was a notoriously pessimistic philosopher, I really liked his exploration of the "sublime," especially in our hyper-alienated world where everything is turned into consumerism and transactions. I think it taps into a deep human need, one that is sorely undernourished in contemporary society. It can be found, though, even in a purely materialist narrative of the universe. I'll try to journal on this more and see if I can put it into prose to share with this site.
I still owe a bunch of people some other project unironically about beans, though, so you know, fair chance I'll fail to get to it lol.
I'm glad you like it. I should really try to get back into writing now that my mental health has been getting better. It sounds self-important, but one of my favorite ways of helping people is to share what I've learned from my studies of philosophy, spirituality, and life itself, in order to make living just a bit easier/more palatable. While Schopenhauer was a notoriously pessimistic philosopher, I really liked his exploration of the "sublime," especially in our hyper-alienated world where everything is turned into consumerism and transactions. I think it taps into a deep human need, one that is sorely undernourished in contemporary society. It can be found, though, even in a purely materialist narrative of the universe. I'll try to journal on this more and see if I can put it into prose to share with this site.
I still owe a bunch of people some other project unironically about beans, though, so you know, fair chance I'll fail to get to it lol.