The Future- Pessimist or Optimist?
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Russia apparently has one that could destroy Britain,all of it.Not optimistic atm,lots of tension with trade and the South China Sea.Trade has been at the heart of many a war.
By chance,have you viewed any unbiased sources on the British Sterling,and Gibraltar in the pre ww2 era?
By chance,have you viewed any unbiased sources on the British Sterling,and Gibraltar in the pre ww2 era?
It's the Satan two. South China Sea? You would like this: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/t...th-china-sea-the-results-are-disturbing-26046
I haven't read anything about the Sterling since the seventies. Mind you what would you consider unbiased?
OK, but I don't have much left. Gotta go workout.
Well I guess I should be honored to be in the company of such worldliness.
It does pose an interesting question though, how is a pessimist born? We start by watching the news and as has been mentioned good news does not bring in the dollars, so for years we sit in front of the TV and see one horrible event after another, and we start to develop opinions. But since we are a much more sophisticated species now we won't take the word of just one venue source we start doing our own research.
We scour the internet for information. In the meantime we are also being profiled and before we know it algorithms are now feeding us a plethora of "information" confirming what we already "believed". We pound the table with a fist, point at the laptop and profess loudly "See, it's exactly as I thought"!!! We reason the we have been informed when in reality we've been conditioned. Without even realizing it we've become Prophets of the church of Chicken Little.
But seriously, I wouldn't worry too much about nukes or trade wars, global warming is going to wipe us off the face of the earth long before the first nuke is dropped
Well I guess I should be honored to be in the company of such worldliness.
It does pose an interesting question though, how is a pessimist born? We start by watching the news and as has been mentioned good news does not bring in the dollars, so for years we sit in front of the TV and see one horrible event after another, and we start to develop opinions. But since we are a much more sophisticated species now we won't take the word of just one venue source we start doing our own research.
We scour the internet for information. In the meantime we are also being profiled and before we know it algorithms are now feeding us a plethora of "information" confirming what we already "believed". We pound the table with a fist, point at the laptop and profess loudly "See, it's exactly as I thought"!!! We reason the we have been informed when in reality we've been conditioned. Without even realizing it we've become Prophets of the church of Chicken Little.
But seriously, I wouldn't worry too much about nukes or trade wars, global warming is going to wipe us off the face of the earth long before the first nuke is dropped
Global warming/climate change and the lack of resources will be our end. Most of the advanced world will be up shit creek if they had to fend for themselves in nature because hunting and gathering is going to the grocery store, plus we have wiped out too many of our wildlife to live off them, well that and our huge population.
A few more generations of masking every disease with a pill will create generations of perpually sick people needing medication to live. Sickly people breeding with other sickly people creating very sickly children. Eventually the medical system will collapse under the weight and a lot of people will die. Is it a bad thing to think this will be a good thing.
Lots of ways the world can end.
But all of it is out of my individual control, the ones pulling the strings are so far from me that I have no influence. So I try to look at the happy things. Do the best I can at work and make customers happy. All I hope is I’m not around to see it unravel.
I am a pessimist
Seeing how disconnected people have become from each other. A lack of empathy for each other and everyone out for themselves. I feel we are on a race to the bottom and agree run away climate change we be our undoing.
Just my view... so I spend as much time with my kids as I can and focus on today because I see dark days coming maybe not in my lifetime but surely in theirs.
Hopefully I am wrong.... I usually am.
BC
Seeing how disconnected people have become from each other. A lack of empathy for each other and everyone out for themselves. I feel we are on a race to the bottom and agree run away climate change we be our undoing.
Just my view... so I spend as much time with my kids as I can and focus on today because I see dark days coming maybe not in my lifetime but surely in theirs.
Hopefully I am wrong.... I usually am.
BC
Are you still on the west coast of the island?If so you could live off the land and no nukes will fall on you.Unless they get knocked down short of their target I guess.Well I guess I should be honored to be in the company of such worldliness.
It does pose an interesting question though, how is a pessimist born? We start by watching the news and as has been mentioned good news does not bring in the dollars, so for years we sit in front of the TV and see one horrible event after another, and we start to develop opinions. But since we are a much more sophisticated species now we won't take the word of just one venue source we start doing our own research.
We scour the internet for information. In the meantime we are also being profiled and before we know it algorithms are now feeding us a plethora of "information" confirming what we already "believed". We pound the table with a fist, point at the laptop and profess loudly "See, it's exactly as I thought"!!! We reason the we have been informed when in reality we've been conditioned. Without even realizing it we've become Prophets of the church of Chicken Little.
But seriously, I wouldn't worry too much about nukes or trade wars, global warming is going to wipe us off the face of the earth long before the first nuke is dropped
Unbiased would be the whole story.What I understand from an Italian researcher is that goods were forced to be unloaded coming from the Med and transferred to British ships and converted to the Sterling at about a 20% loss.I haven’t had much luck on the net finding this.