No Stupid Questions

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Of what?

Just to be the nihilist in the room, I honestly think that the point of no return for humanity occurred the moment we stepped down from the trees and started to evolve. And I'm not actually kidding.

I'm not an evolutionary expert, so I'm more than likely talking out of my ass, but I was an Archaeology Major with a focus on the Bronze Age Collapse and what I can tell you is this...

From a certain perspective, the same evolutionary traits that brought our species to this point, are the very same traits that will keep us from moving forward past it. Selfishness, resource hording, greed, the urge to continually expand at the expense of others. Fear of "others" outside of ones own community; all these things in some form were beneficial to growing from hunter gatherers to urban/agricultural societies. We needed organisation to build cities, so we created monarchies. We needed ways to control the growing population, so we created a fear of a deity.

We needed a reason to not allow too many people in to our society so that we didn't waste resources, so we created borders and the concept of "others" that aren't like us. Now, all of that has to get binned if we have any hope of getting past this point because the only way forward is as single planet, not petty nation states. But every single thing that brought us to this point prevents that from happening. It's ingrained in our very DNA, so to speak.

Someone who has been president before, for four years, was elected president again.

I cannot think of anything less similar to a "point of no return".

You may think of him or his policies what you want (I personally have a mostly negative opinion of him too!), but we have all had four years of opportunity to observe what he does when he is president.

If you are thinking that Trump is like Hitler, then please point me to anything similar to:

• a Capitol Fire Decree of 2017 that says several parts of the Bill of Rights are suspended until further notice
• an Enabling Act of 2017 that gives the president full power to make law including law that violates the constitution
• laws on the Coordination of the States with the Federation of 2017 or a Law on the Reconstruction of the Federation of 2018 giving the federal government full legislative and executive power over the states
• a Law Against the Formation of Parties of 2017 declaring that the Republican Party was the only political party in the US and anyone attempting to form another party would be imprisoned
• a Law on the Abolition of the Senate of 2018 doing exactly what the title implies
• a Law on Measures of State Self-Defense of 2018 retroactively legalizing dozens of extrajudicial killings of Trump's political rivals

Oh, none of those things happened in the late 2010s? Then why exactly are you expecting them to happen in 2025 or 2026? What is different now?

Point of no return for what?

Do you mean its fall, like Rome?

No, I don't think so at all.

I actually think we're on the cusp of actual, true reform.

But if I'm wrong, just try to remember that millions of people lives happy, fulfilling lives, even while Rome fell around them. We will too.

Would you ever allow yourself to accept that truth if so, or will you need to see actual bodies in the streets before you believe it's over?

No. Just the next chapter in the story.