Why does it seem like I'm the only person in the world who doesn't think human beings are ultimately destined to destroy themselves and the earth along with them? On the contrary, I like to believe that the future holds things of such magnificence that those of us who are alive today cannot even begin to comprehend it, because we are still in the slow and often painful process of growing. I think human beings are not only capable of one day reaching the true pinnacle of evolution, but I think it's very likely that they will do so.
Yet whenever the topic of the future of humanity comes up, it's always the so-called optimists of this world who insist that we are doomed to nuclear holocaust, or pollution-driven mass extinction. I don't claim to have an optimistic outlook in every aspect of my life, but when it comes to the really big question, I just might be the only real optimist on the planet!
2007-07-01 08:09:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
interesting.
i am a pessimist, and your division of other humans into optimists and pessimists based on their ideas of the future does not match my experience at all.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
has some fascinating ideas about how mankind may be changing, or very close to a huge change. You might enjoy reading about the ideas there.
2007-07-01 08:17:31 · answer #1 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for many of my life i've got been a pessimist,yet having reached the age that i'm,and having shocked myself by attending to such an age,i'm now strangely confident with regard to the destiny. carry IT ON!
2016-10-03 08:44:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good for you! I'll move over then and rest. Let's face it, the world is going to follow whatever course it is going to follow whatever I think or you think. If you want to feel lonely, you can, but the reality is other people at least live as though the future is bright. No one considers when the sun isn't going to shine any more.
2007-07-01 08:20:36 · answer #3 · answered by cavassi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fairplay 4 your enthusiasm but we live in a very sick angry twisted world which is hell bent on humans 4ever destroyin other humans simply because they can!
2007-07-01 08:24:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋