Optimist

I am optimistic when it comes to humanity’s survival. The reality is that humans are extremely adaptable. Barring a meteorite impact or multiple super volcano eruptions I believe humanity will survive long into the future.

I do not believe our current society will survive though. When climate refuges flood from the inhospitable equator and from lands now underwater, our way of life will not survive.

Our trajectory does not point us towards opening ourselves to those most in need. Mark my words, these refuges will be treated just as poorly as all refuges are treated now. We are not pointed towards helping each other. We see greedy monsters perched atop mountains of false promises and dream one day of pushing them off to take their place. They tell us that they achieved everything through honest hardwork but it takes only the briefest glimpse to see that small amounts of money divide, large amounts of money multiply. Most of them were never like us to begin with.

Silver spoons passed down from parents to child, generation after generation. Why does everyone not just start life with a trust fund? Why does everyone not just start in wealthy suburbia? Why not just be born to wealthy parents who will give you jobs to stop your tears? Parents that will give you the funds to start your career.

Greed is our trajectory, but money, as has been the case for every civilization, will become worthless. Guillotines and iron rings. We’ve seen this game before.

I said I’m an optimist and I am, because despite all this I still have hope. I see countries where they help the broke. I see countries fight back against tyrrany. I see love and hurt in protestors eyes. We’ve all seen the pictures of what happens when fascism attacks their own students in a public square. When we silence the voices of those who actually care and crush them beneath tanks and shoot them for simply being there.

There are two trajectories fighting one another. One towards caring about humans and one towards caring about profits. Look to the future and at what you will leave behind. Look to what you wish the world would be like. Look to the past, and how we combined. Look to what was left for us after each and every fight. There is only one path that leads towards survival. I only hope we see it before it's too late.