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    28 hours ago

    I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. No one knows what to do about it or they know they can’t stop what’s already been done, so why bother even trying to change. This is what got humans here in the first place, we pretend we know answers when we don’t, or at least say some paltry offering as making a difference. We can adapt to the changes that are coming, but it means reinventing our entire way of life, and the people at the top of the pile don’t t want to upset the system where they are at the top of the pile. Change has to come from the people, forcing the change. Our leaders have proven themselves incapable of breaking from the shackles of the old so we won’t make it to the new way unless we make it happen. We can’t leave it to others anymore, we have to do it.

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      Yep. There is a lot of hubris.

      In general right wing folks don’t believe we have a big problem, which is literal denial.

      In general left wing folks believe we can solve the problem easily without much sacrifice, which is denial of the implications.

      When right wing people look at left wing people they think the solutions are not going to work and would be a big scary change and a sure loss of our way of life.

      When left wing people look at right wing people they think that they are stupid for being pragmatic and realist instead of idealistic and fantastical.

      Its a game where both sides blame one another and decades slip comfortably by while we remain deadlocked.