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brent@thecanadian.social

<p>Product and student of uncertainty.</p><p>Sworn enemy of self-deception and willful ignorance. Prefers justice, diversity, kindness. Likes interesting shapes. Dreams of space travel and beautiful, eternal buildings.</p><p>Skeptic. Science is how we know. Wisdom is how we choose.</p><p>Former developer for Apple platforms. Currently contemplating how to limit the damage we do to the environment, and ourselves.</p><p>Expat Torontonian. Currently living on the Niagara Isthmus.</p>

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    This threat is under-appreciated by nearly everyone to the left of these maniacs: neocons, traditional conservatives, centrists, liberals, and progressives. I wonder if they will notice and take action before it is too late. Maybe it&#39;s already too late.

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    Also, they were rallied to a false cause, by unscrupulous villains.

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    I love Earth. But I wonder if life here went down a bad path—maybe apes, mammals, animals, or something older—setting the stage for intelligent life to destroy itself. There&amp;#39;s no guarantee we will avoid catastrophe. Are there species on other planets that are less ruthless? If there is a mass extinction, might it prune that bad branch, so future intelligent species might have a better chance? Or is this inherent in biology? Is intelligence always paired with a drive to consume all?

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    Imagine two lists. The first is all the problems and challenges and risks faced by society. The second is all the ideas for new tech dreamed up by eager entrepreneurs. How many of the former are directly addressed by the latter? The mismatch seems to only get worse. Hello? McFly?

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    When liberalism becomes a minority opinion, how should liberals respond? I don’t know if we’re there yet, but we seem to be close. And as more people face increasingly difficult life situations, the numbers are only going to worsen.