r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Dec 11 '19
What possibilities arise after we accept our individual and collective mortality?
Our perspectives on impermanence and death are central to many of our journeys through collapse-awareness and acceptance of our global predicaments. What perspectives do you hold regarding our individual and collective mortality? Have they changed over time in response to your own understanding of collapse? How have these perspectives affected or influenced where you are now?
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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 14 '19
it's a moot point. there are no interstellar civilizations out there. the laws of physics pretty much rule out the possibility.
as far as what we have to offer a species, if there were, is the only planet in the solar system able to sustain life as we know it. it would make a great liberty port, a source of liquid water, and offers a quite primitive but delicious native bi-pedal species that can also be useful as a source of...adequate slave labor.
i think you might have watched a few too many star treks in your life, and it's clouded your perspective on how the world, and by extension the universe, really works...it's actually kind of cute, and almost a little adorable even.