Pessimism

ITS VERY EASY to have a negative attitude about the human race, and the future of humanity, particularly if you have studied history, or have paid attention to the world the way it is now.

 IN this environment realism can easily be mistaken for pessimism. At the moment, it looks like our fair species will be extinct within a thousand years, or a few hundred, or even less. We tend to want humanity to continue on after our own life times, such is our nature, we feel connected, if only vaguely, to everyone else, because we are.

But the human race has been threated with extinction before, and lived to tell about it. At one point in africa, several hundred thousand years ago, our ancestors evidently dwindled in number to an alarming few, yet the few who remained alive managed somehow to reverse the depopulation trend, and multiply, and increase.

Throughout history climate changes, and subsequent agricultural problems and diseases have drastically reduced the human population - the bubonic plague in the fourteenth century wiped out one third of europe - but, once again, people hung in there, fought the monster, and prevailed.

people get scared and try all kindsa crazy cures, like sweating for bubonic plague and leeching for flu in geroge washington's day. many of course don't work, and even do harm; washington was unintentionally killed by his doctors.

however, throw enough rocks, catch yourself squirrel. sometimes, the old blind squirrel finds an acorn. sun don't always shine on the same dog's ass. sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear gets you. goethe said it well: "but sow, and , in time, you will reap."

chances are the human race will solve its life threatening problems, like climage change, over -population, war, and all the many others, because of fear, desperation, and sheer, rampant persistence and luck.

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