![]() by doing nothing, and allowing greed and malice to be the end of us. ![]() we can annihilate ourselves, and this earth out from under us, with the single push of a button, or worse. This epoch in human history is by far the most important, and the decisions we make are presently the most influential: We are simultaneously capable of creating a future for ourselves and our posterity which is beautiful and rich, and filled with technology and wonder if we only work together for the common good, and set aside our minuscule differences. now is the wrong time to sit down and do nothing my friend. ![]() If you're the type of person who doesn't like getting involved. The distinctions between them are irrelevant and deceptive at best. The alternative won't be found among the Democrats or any other politicians: They are each subordinates of the same party: The Corporatist party, the Elite. The leaders of the two major superpowers have agreed to update their nuclear arsenals as opposed to decreasing them. NASA receives a meager $15 billion in funding yearly so little that we're no longer able to send humans or maintain human presence in space and actually rely on the Russians to keep the ISS active: And that will soon be decreased once more, while the military of this nation receives well over $600 billion yearly and is only drastically rising in scope, funding, and influence. ![]() Our Supreme court will very shortly be occupied by reactionaries with regressive views on social issues. While the middle class is shrinking and wealth inequality increases dramatically this nation's cabinet is the richest in human history, made up of a dozen or so billionaires, bankers, and CEO's: Our legislature has a majority in both houses of the very same group that brought snowballs into the capital building as "evidence" against climate change, and want to let big business run rampant without any sort of impediment. The secretary of state is the former CEO of the oil tycoon Exxon, and the new head of the EPA has anti-environment views. The new administration has put a gag order on climate change research and is defunding branches in government who regulate the environment. The question that's on my mind and should be on everybody's mind is: How did we get to this point and what do we do about it? I'll explain in just a moment in my lengthy comment, bear with me: We're with a modicum of that point once again. The closest we've ever been is 2 minutes to midnight, and that was during the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world's superpowers were glistening nuclear weapons at one another, and we were a heartbeat away from nuclear war. The furthest we've ever been is 14 minutes to Midnight, and that was after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent signing of the above ground nuclear test ban. Basically, it's a means of tracking the progress of mankind, where Midnight represents a global catastrophe, like nuclear war: The further we get from Midnight on the clock the more optimistic the future looks. If you aren't familiar with the clock, please familiarize yourself before reading on. You may have heard the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently made a decision to turn the metaphorical doomsday clock to 2.5 minutes to midnight, as opposed to 3 minutes, based off recent comments by world leaders about nuclear proliferation, and climate change.
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