Once we get invaded by aliens and we have another species to be racist against.
I used to think The Watchmen approach would be an effective one as well, however these days I’m really wondering just how many politicians and corpos would sell out to warlord aliens if they could.
In order to prevent the nearing WWIII, the greatest mind alive, Ozymandias, puts together a plan for world peace in which he fakes an alien invasion. His idea being that with the threat of an extra-terrestrial invasion at hand humanity must unite as one to defeat a common enemy.
Another near extinction event that takes us down to about 1200 individuals should do it.
Honestly?
Heat death of the universe.
Our biology is hardwired for tribalism.
This really. There are good people in the world, unfortunately the sociopaths and psychopaths tend to gravitate to positions of power, the few leading the many to extinction.
Well, sure, explosives and high levels of radiation tend to change biology… they also accelerate the heat death of the universe, so that’s two birds with one missile, I guess? 🤷
Oh the good ol’ “there’s nothing we can do”
Scratching your asshole is also hardwired, doesn’t mean we have to do it…
Somewhere around the time when there is three humans left on the planet, two of them will unite together to kill the third one. For a brief moment after the third one is dead the last two humans will be united in not knowing which one will attack the other one first.
I came here to write something along the lines of this.
And the last couple of humans will spend an awul lot of time reassuring each other that circumstances beyond their control forced them to react like they did and there was no way they could have done anything differently.
Let’s face it, while there were/are promising moments, we as a species are a failed experiment.
It isn’t in our nature as a species to unite and work together. The closest we got was COVID and even the threat of mass viral death only united us for about 2-3 weeks before people were starting fights over closed hair salons.
COVID really killed my faith in humanity, and it blindsided me. I truly believed people in general would come together in such a situation, but it just… didn’t happen. Giving people shit for wearing a mask? Or, heaven forbid, having the audacity to request someone wear a mask around you? Let’s not forget the people hoarding toilet paper like that’s an appropriate response. I know it sounds small in the grand scheme of things, but it requires a certain level of “fuck you, i got mine” to buy three-dozen rolls of TP when the shelves are already bare.
Same.
There was a two-week period here in Kansas City where the city reopened without a mask mandate (one was later ordered prior to the 4th of July) and I went to the gym for the first time in two months.
Zero masks. Zero people distancing. No one sanitizing after using the hand scanner to enter.
That was my breaking point. I now expect the worst in people as a general rule.
