Where did they go wrong?
Humans
by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 24, 2022 9:38 PM |
Patriarchy.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 24, 2022 6:04 AM |
The agricultural revolution
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 24, 2022 6:22 AM |
I think the agricultural revolution was okay. It was the industrial revolution that started the end of humanity.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 24, 2022 6:27 AM |
Walking upright, I think.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 24, 2022 6:30 AM |
The industrial revolution? We were already way, way fucked by then.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 24, 2022 6:48 AM |
Once the apple was bitten it was all downhill 🙄
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 24, 2022 7:17 AM |
I don't buy that Adam and Eve snacked on the tree of knowledge. Must have been some other tree.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 24, 2022 7:21 AM |
Before the Industrial Revolution we were small, agrarian communities. It was the move to industrialism that lead to overcrowded, dirty, disease-filled cities and huge population growth. That population growth is the basis of all our current problems. Humans are a fucking parasitic species and the industrial revoluation set the stage for our downfall by creating the perfect conditions for parasites to thrive. We've now used up our host and it is dying and we die with it. That's what parasites do. Before the industrial revolution, we were in a more symbiotic relationship with the earth and each other.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 24, 2022 7:24 AM |
^ Good points
I also think we've done this before and just keep failing into self-destruction
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 24, 2022 7:29 AM |
November 8, 2016....An Orange Idiot, a Kentucky Hillbilly, and an Evil GOP converged to destroy a fair and free democracy.....And America is circling the drain and we will now be forced to bow to the Republican Partys whims as they dictate how we can live or behave, even when rape is involved. They are the Overlords. History will show THIS is the day that started the dominos falling.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 24, 2022 7:34 AM |
The human condition of hate. Blaming others for problems, social discontent, ills, whatever. THAT is what has destroyed civilizations since human crawled out of the slime. See R12 for examples.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 24, 2022 7:44 AM |
Opposable thumbs. That's when we started messing around with nature.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 24, 2022 7:54 AM |
Sometimes i think it was when we began mass inoculations. It thwarted Darwinism and let a lot of people who would have otherwise died off live and breed.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 24, 2022 7:57 AM |
Modern medicine was the worst thing to happen to humans and the planet. Before 80-90% of humanity died off from infection and disease. With the advent medication, surgery and vaccinations, 90% of those people remain alive. It's the principle cause of everything from the invasion of first-world countries, overpopulation, strife, land/water degradation, pollution, "climate change", "global warming", etc.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 24, 2022 8:06 AM |
Homo Erectus was the beginning of the inevitable end. If only the prior species had evolved into something else, or not at all. I would be very happy at this point to have all humans wiped from the face of the earth and let it heal and be inhabited only by non-human animals.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 24, 2022 6:15 PM |
"let it heal and be inhabited only by non-human animals. "
Yeah, that's the answer... Damn that evolution 🙄
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 24, 2022 6:18 PM |
[quote]Yeah, that's the answer... Damn that evolution
Yes. Because....the advance of humans through evolution has worked out SO well....right? The earth is 4.5 billion years old. Relative to that age, humans have inhabited earth for a few minutes and have managed to pretty much destroy it.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 24, 2022 6:22 PM |
^ So, you think it ends with humans? That's pretty narrow, maybe something better comes after us
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 24, 2022 6:24 PM |
[quote]maybe something better comes after us
Quite possibly, but doubtful they would evolve from humans, who seem to be an experiment gone wrong. Bring it back to the non-human animals, and maybe something different and better will evolve. Humans are tainted.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 24, 2022 6:27 PM |
If something better evolves from a life form other than human then nature will have solved the problem
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 24, 2022 6:31 PM |
R10. The reasons for increased population growth are improved sanitation and vaccines. Prior to vaccines 1/3 of third world under fives died of communicable diseases.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 24, 2022 6:59 PM |
^ We also have a penchant for exterminating each other, because God
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 24, 2022 7:03 PM |
Humans suck
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 24, 2022 7:07 PM |
Too many people. R10 is correct. Sedentary communities and agriculture gave rise to everything else--population growth, industry, high technology (IMO, everything other than fairly basic things like horse-and-carriages, irrigation, etc.), modern medicine, nation-states, and capitalism. Too many people also means wars, conquering, widespread oppression and hostility. All human communities fight, but large-scale war is another thing entirely.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 24, 2022 7:09 PM |
I probably should have said conquest rather than conquering. I'm sleepy.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 24, 2022 7:10 PM |
Humans are attempting to do Civilization, but they're not good at it because they weren't designed for it. Using their primitive minds and bodies to create Civilization is considered 'Off-label' use.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 24, 2022 7:37 PM |
^ So, nature gave us thumbs and brains, but using them to become more civilized is "off-label"... Ok 🥴
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 24, 2022 7:46 PM |
If anything, given our limitations, we’ve over-performed.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 24, 2022 8:01 PM |
Too much chimpanzee DNA; not enough bonobo.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 24, 2022 8:04 PM |
Religion.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 24, 2022 8:09 PM |
Sometimes I wish Covid wiped out all humans 100%. Not even joking.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 24, 2022 8:13 PM |
^ Speak for yourself, I and a few others are not ready to go
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 24, 2022 8:19 PM |
R33, if it had only wiped out the idiots who wouldn't wear a mask or get vaccinated, that would have done enough.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 24, 2022 8:21 PM |
I AM speaking for myself. That's my sometimes wish, you're entitled to have your own.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 24, 2022 9:01 PM |
^ You want us all dead, we don't want to die. So, speak for yourself ðŸ˜
by Anonymous | reply 37 | June 24, 2022 9:03 PM |
Slavery. Blacks should have been left in Africa and never taken to other continents.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 24, 2022 9:06 PM |
The apple, hun.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 24, 2022 9:12 PM |
[quote]You want us all dead
So do the animals and the insects and the trees and the atmosphere and the microorganisms and the soil and the ocean and the and the and the
by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 24, 2022 9:36 PM |
My dog wants me alive 🙂
by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 24, 2022 9:38 PM |