Will human societies always enshittify themselves? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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It seems society always goes down the shitter over and over following the same path. People rise to wealth and power extracted on the repression of the masses, massive disparity, ignorance exemplified, xenophobia and blaming minorities for any possible issue, laws signed with golden pens but becoming more meaningless when they’re only enforced to protect the wealthy…. Then some sort of collapse, fragmentation, and/or dystopia usually in conjunction with war, purges, and killing in the name of tribalism.

History seems to rewind the cassette and record right over the top with the same old song.

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Every time it happens, things get a little worse.

I'd argue that each time, things get a little better.

Sure the worst part is always the worst we've ever seen, but we take what we learned from that and create new systems. Plan A starts well enough, until money and power corrupt it, it gets bad enough to revolt and now we try plan B. Plan B will eventually corrupt, but, it's better than plan A ever was. We're getting closer, but it's a trial and error process that happens over centuries, so it's going to take longer than we'll ever know.

[-] the_q@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I disagree. The world now is still dealing with issues that technology has eliminated. No one has to be hungry now or thirsty or homeless or sick (mostly). No, now meeting needs is setup behind a paywall with artificial barriers.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think we're on the same page actually. Currently, shit is fucked, and it's well past time for a reset. I'm ready for the next, better (but probably still not quite perfect) system.

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