David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
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Re: David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
#2I think that not seeing how the story ends will be a blessing in disguise.
(I do not share his optimism that we fix this, the forces of Line Must Go Up are going to win... at least until we all rapidly lose)
Re: David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
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#4Nobody sees how the story ends
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#5Nobody sees how the story ends
I can understand there is an inherit sadness in not knowing the outcome of one's life's work, but as you say none of use ever see how it ends. In terms of our natural environment humankind has only ever observed in person, let alone recorded, what amounts to the blink of an eye.
Re: David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
#6Nobody sees how the story ends
The Sundays beg to differ.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Sundays beg to differ.
Are you alluding to some religious thing? Fear of oblivion and/or the unknown is fucking scary.
Certainly this: https://youtu.be/FHsip5xOenQ
Re: David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
#9I think that not seeing how the story ends will be a blessing in disguise. (I do not share his optimism that we fix this, the forces of Line Must Go Up are going to win... at least until we all rapidly lose)
“No one cares about the bomb that didn’t go off.” - Tenet
Preventing “bombs” from going off is not rewarded. And indeed the Line Must Go Up Crowd is reliant upon someone else fixing the problem while they get theirs. But when the majority think that way we’re f**ed.
Re: David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
#10I think that not seeing how the story ends will be a blessing in disguise. (I do not share his optimism that we fix this, the forces of Line Must Go Up are going to win... at least until we all rapidly lose)
I agree. I reflect on this from time to time when I consider that my mom, having died a few years back, would not be enjoying much of anything going on in the world right now. (Further, that she was born at the close of WWII in the U.S., she may have been lucky enough to have lived in the best part of recent history here.)