UndercoverElephant wrote:I'm a textbook example of ecosophic subtype with nihilistic tendencies. Philosophers are allowed to be nihilists. Malthus and Darwin were both right, but people still need to be provoked into thinking about the truth. I feel a duty to fight misinformation and propaganda for no other reason than I don't like people believing things which aren't true. How can people make free decisions unless they are being given accurate information?
Well said. I'm pretty much the same, but with slightly more nihilistic tendencies.
Otherwise my Subtype of Doom depends entirely upon my mood, the weather and the tightness of my underwear.
I'm definitely a do-more doomer.
I work in a large-ish town and have visions all the time of potatoes growing in the central carriageways, of runner beans curling up pylons.
So I'm a 'things will be all right' person. But I live with a 'nihilist doomer' who brings me right back down to earth with a bump.
I think I'm probably a 'cathartic doomer' . . . I believe that we are currently entering a cycle of destruction which will enable the seeds and shoots of a new stage of humanity to come through.
Now is the winter of our discontent . . . but through the destruction, a new spring will come to us.
In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
