We don't have good health care and things like that in the United States anyway. And this builds up resentment. It builds up dislike of the system. So they're more likely to overthrow the institutions or not to respect them. Do I see a positive way out of this? I'm honestly not sure. To me, this is absolutely uncertainty. You know, human beings are mostly themselves at a more or less constant entropy. There's many, many, many things in the universe that are making way more entropy than you are. Like the sun. The sun radiating out into space does enormously more to increase the entropy of the universe than every human being who ever existed in total.
Welcome to the December 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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