The earth is a ball of solid rock with a molten core ~6,500km in diameter, with a thin, layer of air of about 10km sticking precariously to it. Beyond, it’s harsh vacuum and hard radiation. About 0.15%. That thin layer and a modest magnetic field are all that sustains life.
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And this is why I have such a strong reaction to the Trump era. Personally it has barely affected my life in any major way. But at the same time, it feels like a steady, relentless, and fundamentally pointless poisoning of the substance of humanity, and calling it “strength”
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True. Reminds me of Aldous Huxley “it is bit embarrassing after 45 years of research and study that the best piece of advice I can give people is to be kinder to each other”. Not sure i am quoting exactly correctly but the substance of his words
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“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies - ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” -Kurt Vonnegut
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Well put. It also makes the economic models whereby everyone is expected to act in their own self interest seem very naïve.
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Dispense with the mere superficiality and then glorifying it as the secret of success for being rich and powerful is where this really goes wrong. This influences even those with the propensity of being kind to hold back *smh*
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