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Comment by S K (s-k-1) on Why I think there's a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war · 2022-10-10T07:43:33.946Z · LW · GW

Humans have maintained a compulsion dubbed in Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat as " The Spirit of Perverseness" or something better known as Sin. Whereas in almost every major science fiction story that our world goes through a catastrophe, either we abandon all hope, and become dedicated toward anarchy, in some others we strive toward peace, through either a better sense of community and a proper rebuild, or, a means of peace through government control. Our most recent test was Covid. I asked myself "Where is the War?" And now we have not one major War, but many, across the world. From China and Taiwan, N. Korea, Russia and the U.S., but also so many other conflicts, and then more mainstay crisis upon crisis upon crisis upon crisis. This is what it boils down to - Ascension. We humans are addicted to Repentance into Sin, Peace into Chaos. We, as a species, refuse to stop this cycle, unified, ready to ascend to the next major purpose of our species. We are a cancer to this planet, or the proper balance/test Nature itself needs to survive the next asteroid. There are no longer any major icons (Susan B. Anthony, Galileo, Gandhi, MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Mother Teresa, Vera Lynn). No more hunger strikes, and in the U.S. - There is no longer a need to amend our Constitution, which in turn, by default, is a relinquishment of "rights". We slave ourselves to debt with Money (This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private), to give ourselves a unified "pat on the back" that we are not "poor" (poverty/lack of abundance; wealth/overabundance). Simply put, if we cannot get ourselves as a species to defy this monotonous cycle of the status quo, then human behavior itself is the key to the answer to such subject matters as nuclear war. It is imminent and necessary, to possibly get this species to the next ascended step. Nietzsche explains that Confrontation produces Genius. This seems to be a very unfortunate truth.