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Poll: How optimistic are you about the human species and our current civilization? On a scale of 1 (civilizational collapse and human extinctio) to 10

Posted by mara (aka mara) Aug 11 '20, 11:54

(we will achieve a Star-Trek-like ideal society with widespread prosperity, health, and personal fulfillment for all humans and total ecological healing for the planet).

Responses:

The fact that we have a manageable epidemic which has caused us to rethink economics and logistics actually makes me more optimistic than last year - Max Aug 11, 12:44
I'm going to be optimistic and say 4. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 11, 12:33
5-ish -- nm - decline Aug 11, 12:25
Some one asked if I had any plans for the fall, it took a moment to get they meant "autumn " and not "of civilization as we know it" -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 12:21 1
- "Do ya think it'll fall?" "What?" "The Roman empire." "LOL FUCK IT!" -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 12:28
3.125 is the joke but it's funny because it's true -- nm - oblique Aug 11, 12:14
We get through Trump I actually expect us to do a LOT of good. 8. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:06
6 -- nm - David Aug 11, 12:05
6.5 -- nm - Dano Aug 11, 12:05
What a thing to open the page to. :/ -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 12:04
wow, this poll is *dark* -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:02 2
- Like we're gonna live to see it through ;-) -- nm - JD Aug 11, 12:11 1
  - heh -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:18
Right now about a 7. -- nm - TWuG Aug 11, 11:59
8. I don't think utopia is possible, but I think we're getting closer to it than the other direction. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 11, 11:59
For the second one, I always remember Hyde's "It will be a long and glorious slide downwards, like Britain." For the first, 0, but that is why we have - con_carne Aug 11, 11:59
1 is an inevitability, given a long enough timeframe. -- nm - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 11, 11:58 2
- Hmm, I should have put a timeframe into the question. -- nm - mara Aug 11, 12:01 1
  - even with that, I can't answer until Nov. 4 -- nm - mud Aug 11, 12:02
3.5 -- nm - Epiphany - Letterkenny Groupie Aug 11, 11:58
I'm 2 or 3 these days, although I try not to be. -- nm - mara Aug 11, 11:57
3 -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 11:55
4. Same as it ever was. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 11:55
For the nearish future 4, if we live through that and after a stupidly long time 8 -- nm - JD Aug 11, 11:55

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Poll: How optimistic are you about the human species and our current civilization? On a scale of 1 (civilizational collapse and human extinctio) to 10

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