Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-210 months agoIn the show "3 Body Problem" (I haven't read the book) the statement was made 'our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems'. Would you agree?message-squaremessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1126arrow-down1message-squareIn the show "3 Body Problem" (I haven't read the book) the statement was made 'our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems'. Would you agree?Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-210 months agomessage-square97fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelemmyreader@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·10 months agoCould not have said it better.
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·10 months agoIf a civilization chooses not to be civil … why call it a civilization?
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·10 months agoThat’s just not how language really works, Axl.
minus-squareHarbinger01173430@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoBecause they have civilians
minus-squareexocrinous@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 months agoCivility is a bad thing, and capitalism has lots of it.
minus-squareOpenStars@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI think Capable should be downgraded to a Maybe at this point…
Capable? Yes. Willing? No.
Could not have said it better.
If a civilization chooses not to be civil … why call it a civilization?
That’s just not how language really works, Axl.
Me fail English? … That’s unpossible
Because they have civilians
Civility is a bad thing, and capitalism has lots of it.
I think Capable should be downgraded to a Maybe at this point…