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(This is exactly what keeps me up at night. The idea that the ruling class could care less about what is in store for us a thousand years from now. In a very real sense, this is what riles me up so much about the DSA/Jacobin left that doesn't seem to understand the urgency of the situation with its meliorism. Maybe it will take some enormous catastrophe to get working people to wake up to the reality that they are in a car speeding down a highway 90 miles an hour with nobody in the driver's seat.)
That's why researchers, artists, technologists and philosophers are converging on the idea that short-termism may be the greatest threat our species is facing this century. They include philosophers arguing the moral case for prioritising our distant descendants; researchers mapping out the long-term path of Homo sapiens; artists creating cultural works that wrestle with time, legacy and the sublime; and Silicon Valley engineers building a giant clock that will tick for 10,000 years.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190109-the-perils-of-short-termism-civilisations-greatest-threat _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
