In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Originally Posted by Loki
Not really referring to you. I don't recall what your position on that issue was. But Nessus constantly harps on poli sci having trouble proving things (true to an extent), but yet constantly engages in fights over philosophy, which is totally unfalsifiable. Surely engaging in research of something that can be shown to occur with some pattern, albeit probabilistically, is better than engaging in fights over something that can't in any way be proven or disproven.
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