• blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Still don’t disagree. We’re talking past each other. I suppose to respond specifically to your context- yes. And. The respective individual can each be successful in

    Every dystopian film has taught us that lower caste will turn on their neighbor for a place on the ark. If these projects do exist, they can be as secretive as any government or private r&d project. Get some blackwater types for security. Find a few scientists that have spent so much time in academic intellectualism, they grey area away their morality to justify saving their own kids, or even some narcissistic view on their superior genius dna surviving.

    Don’t be you. Be low morality desperate people with opportunities and motives. If evil oligarchs can shape our entire world order, they can’t build a secret space ship or bunker? It just seems very occams razor to me, if we’re doing this thought exercise.

    As far as collaboration, per my point… no illuminati round table. Just rich dicks being rich dicks in parallel. Any single rich dick can be doing some major apocalypse ready project. Also, any group of rich dicks can. No contradiction with your theses. I really don’t think our perspectives are that different.

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      9 months ago

      Ah, I apologize for being denser than a black hole. Yeah I see your point. The power they carry only requires one of them to create a secretive project and that is entirely possible. I fully believe all their efforts to subvert their destruction at the hands of their destruction of the ecosystem is futile. I may be wrong in 2023, but the last time I looked into stuff like Biodome it didn’t work. So if worst came to worst, they’d have a limited amount of time in their bunker before some life support system that can no longer be manufactured gives out and there are no more replacements. I guess what I really think is they need to pull their head out of their asses and get with us, because they aren’t saving themselves either like they think they’re going to be able to. So it is a pessimistic view, but its more of “if we get to that point your money, bunkers, and schemes won’t save you.”

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        9 months ago

        Lmao you’re not dense. There’s a reason I’ve taken the time to engage, let you know we have common ground, didn’t get defensive, and didn’t ad hominem you :D I’ve been really feeling this site getting more combative. I could understand why you’d assume my intentions are typical.

        Have you seen Don’t Look Up? The ending is relevant to your comments

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          That one is extremely high on my list, my movie-going has abruptly stopped once I had my children. Is it depressing? I’m worried its message is such a perfect mirror that its depressing lol thank you for engaging with me. I’ve noticed the comments section can resemble crabs in a bucket. They’ll get locked in a discussion like we just did but allow it to devolve instead. Which is sad, I enjoy it when people can respond in paragraphs with citations. Its like you hit someone’s lore dump button on their specialized topic.