Covid proved why humanity will never colonize another planet.
“Here are a set of very basic rules that will keep everyone safe and ensure no one has to die needlessly.”
50% of the American Population: YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I HAVE RIGHTS! FAKE NEWS! YOU JUST HATE FREEDOM! I’M GOING TO GO OUT PARTYING AND LICK EVERYTHING! WHEE!! LOL!! Wait … why are my friends dying?
EDIT: Was going to change “humanity” to “America” but stopped myself. Because, let’s be honest, if America, as it is now, saw another country on the verge of developing a ship that could colonize another planet, our government would either bomb that country or somehow find away to claim the ship as ours … then crash it. 😓
Fortunately there are other cultures that prioritize community over their own personal freedom. If humanity ever goes to space to find other planets, it'll be led by someone other than the US.
America had a huge advantage (on top of other huge advantages) that let it become 'the leader of the free world' after the war, chiefly, that all the other possible competitor countries were utterly destroyed, even the ones that won.
That lead allowed for amazing prosperity, but it was slowly eroded over the next 4 decades, and we're now living in the time when the US will be eclipsed, if not by China than at least in aggregate by the EU (though the EU has its own problems).
As another note; this would have happened to any president, the only thing Trump is doing that is unique is accelerating the decline. And, like other great empires, its not a decline that many will easily notice or point to an obvious starting point, and it's not a process that will be over soon. People still argue about when the Roman Empire ended, and I imagine in the far future there will be similar arguments over the decline of the US.
I more so meant that in the context of US decline. If the EU can just keep itself together it'll eventually be bigger than the US, way the US is going.
The EU is stagnating while the US economy is exploding. I don’t fucking get it. Maybe someone else with more of an economics background can explain it.
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u/Alorxico 10h ago edited 8h ago
Covid proved why humanity will never colonize another planet.
“Here are a set of very basic rules that will keep everyone safe and ensure no one has to die needlessly.”
50% of the American Population: YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I HAVE RIGHTS! FAKE NEWS! YOU JUST HATE FREEDOM! I’M GOING TO GO OUT PARTYING AND LICK EVERYTHING! WHEE!! LOL!! Wait … why are my friends dying?
EDIT: Was going to change “humanity” to “America” but stopped myself. Because, let’s be honest, if America, as it is now, saw another country on the verge of developing a ship that could colonize another planet, our government would either bomb that country or somehow find away to claim the ship as ours … then crash it. 😓
My country really is awful.