Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-28 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-28 months agomessage-square97fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelemmyreader@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·8 months agoCould not have said it better.
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 months agoIf a civilization chooses not to be civil … why call it a civilization?
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·8 months agoThat’s just not how language really works, Axl.
minus-squareHarbinger01173430@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoBecause they have civilians
minus-squareexocrinous@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 months agoCivility is a bad thing, and capitalism has lots of it.
minus-squareOpenStars@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 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…