My partner and I met on okcupid where one of the “match” questions is “Would you rather live in good times or interesting times?” Just about everyone (including him) answered “interesting times” and I had posted a little comment on it saying something along the lines of “I feel like people are not actually thinking through the implications of this.”
Now whenever something “interesting” but shitty happens (see: the pandemic) I say, “remember when everyone on okcupid said they’d rather live through ‘interesting’ times…?” I’d prefer to just read about it in the history books.
Totally the times we are living in are interesting AF if you abstract yourself from the present picture like
“AI taking and automating jobs, what will those silly humans do ?”
"Damn they really got of that pandemic fast, at least the developed societies, think about it three years, bro, and it was gone.
A couple hundred…, decades ago this would not be possible "
“Planet Earth on a climatic crisis, will humanity persevere, will they revert those changes, how would they take out big oil?”
“Global conflicts emerging, food and hunger on low developing countries, depressed and aging population on developed ones, will this dummy humans ever get an hold of themselves?”
Totally interesting topics for an alien overlord, but for us are just topic of our daily doom scroll and anxiety, 1984 similar books are interesting AF, now living them is a total different story (pun intended)
My partner and I met on okcupid where one of the “match” questions is “Would you rather live in good times or interesting times?” Just about everyone (including him) answered “interesting times” and I had posted a little comment on it saying something along the lines of “I feel like people are not actually thinking through the implications of this.”
Now whenever something “interesting” but shitty happens (see: the pandemic) I say, “remember when everyone on okcupid said they’d rather live through ‘interesting’ times…?” I’d prefer to just read about it in the history books.
There used to be a saying, “may you live in interesting times”
I never viewed it as friendly for this reason
Totally the times we are living in are interesting AF if you abstract yourself from the present picture like
“AI taking and automating jobs, what will those silly humans do ?”
"Damn they really got of that pandemic fast, at least the developed societies, think about it three years, bro, and it was gone. A couple hundred…, decades ago this would not be possible "
“Planet Earth on a climatic crisis, will humanity persevere, will they revert those changes, how would they take out big oil?”
“Global conflicts emerging, food and hunger on low developing countries, depressed and aging population on developed ones, will this dummy humans ever get an hold of themselves?”
Totally interesting topics for an alien overlord, but for us are just topic of our daily doom scroll and anxiety, 1984 similar books are interesting AF, now living them is a total different story (pun intended)