Sunday, 16 August 2020

The Pitfalls of the 21st Century

The twenty-first century will be the first century in three thousand years to record a steep decline in human population. Perhaps this century will herald the beginning of the end for our species. In this universe, there is no mercy for creatures that have lost their will to survive. The fate of the dinosaurs awaits us if we can’t rediscover that instinct which Nietzsche calls “the barbaric (romanticist) will to power (survival).”

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