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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Well, that’s a dark view of the world
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The world is a place where living things struggle and fight one another to exist. A place where lifeless matter must be harnessed in some way so that life continues. A place where human life has somehow managed to not yet fall into what seems inevitable extinction. To a great degree, we have done so by creating various civilizations, small to great.
We humans have our competitions. For sport or for existence. They seem to be a necessary trait for that survival. However it came about, in order to escape the existential "darkness" of survival, we have strived to create some form of Shangri la. Some place of peace, security, and joy. In this war against the threats to life, we became dominant among living things to the point that we were our greatest threat to each other.
In a unique circumstance in the annals of created civilizations, an advanced people discovered a place where they could be free from the tyrannies of the ruling class model. They were permitted by their isolation from that model to experience what individual freedom was like. And they liked it enough to fight to keep it. And they created a marvelous plan for government that would protect that freedom. As Franklin said, a republic if you can keep it.
It was probably only a matter of time, as the Founders predicted, that the "new world" would succumb to the old pattern. And that plan of government would go the way of the world and become extinct.
You may call that "dark." It is what it is.