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liveonearth

Interesting person on LJ

May 21, 2009 20:16

TheHeretic is a type I diabetic and former science fiction writer. I was wandering around in his journal and it is full of great ideas and interesting thoughts about our future and human nature.

Here's a quote from the middle of an entry about why he is alive, which in a word, is "insulin":

Optimism is a terrible evil, one of the greatest ever, imho. ( Read more... )

death, diabetes, optimism

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neptunia67 May 22 2009, 03:29:47 UTC

I'm interested in what attracted you to this section of his post.

Being an optimist, what he says doesn't ring true. I'm not really sure I get the point of his post at all. But then again I don't know him so to come in cold it just seems incredibly cynical and negative. Then again, I might be the same if I had to depend on a drug for my life.

theheretic May 22 2009, 03:44:17 UTC

Look up the words: "Peak Oil" in Google and get back to me.

neptunia67 May 22 2009, 03:50:50 UTC

OK, I looked it up. Your point is?

Some arguments to consider theheretic May 22 2009, 04:08:41 UTC

Best case: the third world stops improving and halts its level of development. Worst case the third world starves or riots and the first world joins them. This would make delivery of Insulin rather unlikely and I would experience a terrible death. You might look up "Ketoacidosis" on WebMD.com. As I used to be a Survivalist and have a pretty low opinion of how people treat each other, from misunderstood indifference to deliberate evil, knowing I'm going to face death because people can't get along is a humiliating realization. And I really believe that they'd rather kill each other than compromise their "dreams". Optimists pretend that Peak Oil is someone else's problem, either because they can't believe that Oil, a limited resource, can run out, or because they think it will run out in decades or centuries rather than pay attention to the already declining production and existing wars over oil that began recently (Kuwait 1990-91, Iraq 2003, Nigeria 2006 ( ... )

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littleblueghost May 22 2009, 03:52:34 UTC

Ok, I don't know if I am an optimist, pessimist or realist...

I have hope for humanity, but realise the number of mistakes we have made getting to where we are today... and we need to make changes if we want a future. I am optimistic that we can, as individuals, make said changes, however I am pessemistic about it because the people that make the large scale decisions that affect us on the population basis tend to be selfish, and not looking out for the future, simply after there own greed.

I think the truly intelligent people look to the future with hope and fear, as they see where we could go - both sides of the coins (Is that a realistic point of view?)