• Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    I can’t speak to the validity of this particular example, but every society has something that they’re decrying as a sign of weakness, and it changes over time.

    We’re all familiar with the denouncement of rock and roll, but at one point reading was seen as a bad thing. People were concerned that it encouraged laziness and distraction from the important things in life.

    Every society thinks they’re important enough to witness the end of history.

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      3 months ago

      Here I was having some serious climate change related anxiety, and this post, coupled with another meme I saw (which was Neil Degrasse Tyson saying that “If Humans can geo-engineer other planets, we can certainly do it to our own.”), helped.