In March, revolving credit outstanding collapsed at an annual rate of 31%. I was part of that decline. I used my government cheese to pay off my corporate cheese, and I didn’t even thank Trump after. I mean, he is not actually the one to thank for any of this. Before I get myself on one of those rants I just want to say that all hope is not lost.
Most, but not all.
I’ve been quite the morbid soul as of late, thinking about how quickly humanity may be snuffed out. Gott’s Copernican Method suggests we have about 760 years or so left until humanity is done. He’s not the only one who suggests we won’t make it. Theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin has a first in, last out theory that argues that the first race to manage intergalactic travel will kill everyone else in self defense. This is very not Star Trek. Yet it is possible. There are a number of possibilities. One I find depressing and, well, current, is the Great Filter theory in which most species wipe themselves out before achieving extra-planetary expansion. How? Why? Because we tend to poison our environment, or our environment poisons us in self defense. We might be seeing that now.
Whatever it is that is happening to us goes deeper than a virus. We are hyper-polarized/Hyper-partisan and driven only by the desire to have more wealth and thus power. We are not a global society that is about functioning together to create a brighter future. We just want our slice and our bling. That is not a long term plan.