I think what you're describing is the state we need to be in if we're going to survive.

We now know what happens when a creature evolves a trait that allows it to eventually gain mastery over the resources of its world, like so many a parable, we become drunk on it and have brought ourselves to the brink of self-destruction, uninterested in the plight of the other life on Earth, and even one another's plights.

Yes, for less than 10 human lifespans we have used industrialization to make more than we need and live in relative decadence as we've moved away from our natural state, and in doing so, have already altered the climate for MILLIONS of years for all creatures here. The earth will recover. Life will recover. But on its timeframe, not ours.

What you are describing as features are burning out our species and setting up the conditions to make physically fragile surface life like us have no ground to go to. The solution offered, as always is growing/metasisizing on worlds we didn't evolve on, that unlike Earth has no tolerance for error, and no virtuous, redundant systems for recycling our water, air, or waste. If we couldn't find equilibrium here, that is a bad joke at best, and more likely just a confidence scheme at worst. Either we find equilibrium here, or we go extinct.

I'm sorry, if we want to survive and have a future as a species, We need to work within the natural systems we evolved to survive within, not look for wasteful cheats with a dream of getting fat in hoverchairs watching holovids. Hunting for meals gives those meals meaning. Being one step ahead of death gives life meaning. Meaning, that thing so many people are killing themselves over not having in making capital for the pharoahs in exchange for fastfood and social media.

I don't see the shame or the horror in being knocked back to what we always were having proven we're too irresponsible, shortsighted, and above all selfish to be more than without unleashing real horror upon the life of this world when the very air we all breathe turns on us: scattered hunter gatherers that number in the millions, not billions.

But if that isn't enough, and given our temperament it won't be, the 3.8 billion year old living Earth will handle us, not unlike trees of the carboniferous period, another runaway mutation the Earth's climate eventually checked and recovered from.

You can prioritize the cozy comfort of your immediate surrounding generations, or you can prioritize humanity's continued existence for more than another generation or two. I know I'm the weird one more concerned with the larger story than a single frame.

gold in the basement

It's like the IDF wants to reinforce and feed horrible stereotypes about the Jewish people.

billions of inhabited star systems.

Suddenly that massive Galactic Senate Chamber seems cartoonishly tiny. Was the galactic Republic just a dictatorial empire to the high hundreds of millions of worlds/systems that didn't have a senate pod from which to be heard/represented?

Reminder:

No one in your neighborhood is going to waste their expensive drugs getting your random kids high.

If they did, I'd go trick or treating and I'm a grown man.

This is highly flattering.

It's exceedingly rare that capitalists put human lives all the way up at the same level as currency.

To paraphrase Donald's sociopathic idiocy...

I like generals who weren't complete failures as generals.

Also the human societies that, while far from perfect, lived in homeostasis with the Earth.

You know, the ones we shot and infected with disease so we could stab a flagpole through their corpses and claim their shit through violence in the name of civil society.

Because apparently if you aren't a literal captain planet villain, you're a "savage."

societal collapse

Ah yes, that thing that has us laboring to chase meaningless plastic crap we're brainwashed into needing instead of growing our own food and maintaining our own shelters as small, purposeful communities, all so the owners of this society can siphon our energy while poisoning the earth, all to live like wannabe gods above us.

No more penis Space tourist rockets? What a loss...

I'm not even Christian anymore and I'm embarrassed for them at how willfully, cartoonishly oblivious they are to the teachings they claim to want to enforce at the point of a gun.

A real christo-nationalist fascist would put a gun against your head and tell you to welcome and assist people from foreign lands! Give away what you don't need to the less fortunate! Pay your taxes! And love your fucking neighbors like my brown skinned, middle eastern messiah who I embrace as my superior wants, motherfucker!

I'm of the opinion the societies that brought heavy industry and Flags aka "this is mine time to die" are the people's with the poisonous blood.

The only humans that weren't cancerous, like the Native Americans that lived in perpetual homeostasis with the Earth, were largely eradicated in the name of metastasis, oh I'm sorry, wonderous growth.

You know, that thing that's destroying the entire habitat for humans effectively permanently.

Apt metaphor of our times.

Greenwashing, social media highlight reels, worship of the affluent, grind culture, etc.

Putting a fake, stepford face to obfuscate the horrors we refuse to address, using unethical(theft) technology being shoved down our throats for profit no less.

It's a shame that the next generation of capitalist nepos are raised aware that their family hoard is fed by burning the world, and that same hoard insulates them from climate change induced mass famine\drought\etc.

The people that make the important decisions and own both of our parties don't lose sleep over their avarice, and impress that dynastically.

We need to reign in our owner class, or no amount of begging will help. They know what they're doing, and know they can protect and insulate themselves and theirs by convincing you to consume more than you need with propaganda and regulatory capture.

I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.

There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.

My gym motivation is to have a heart attack to finally end the grind for shelter hell and have peace.

The Japanese are one of the few countries worthy of even more pity than us Americans when it comes to slaving for and being defined by their vocation.

I agree with you completely, but people who don't play the meaningless game of career trajectory are literally shunned by family there for it.

Honestly this is a big reason I can't root for our society in its current form.

Everyone in an area, barring diagnosed disability requiring special education, should go to the same PUBLIC schools to develop empathy with Americans who don't live behind their guard gates, to have similar academic starting points if even a partial "meritocracy" is something we'd like to try to actually aspire to, and to reverse rich parents having no skin in the game and forcing them to advocate FOR public schools with their power rather than lobby to further destroy them for tax cuts because being greedy sociopaths is kind of their thing.

The idea that a child's future prospects are so dependant on their parent's socioeconomic status, rather than solely the child's aptitude and motivation, makes this whole place nothing but a bad clown show to me. Feudalism with a marketing team.

In a country where intelligent and hard working children are lost to schools we starved to cut wealthy sociopath's taxes, while dynastic entitled nitwits like George W Bush and Donald Trump literally cannot fail despite barely being able to walk without tripping on their own shoes or bankrupting yet another company, trying just makes one a sucker.

It's the only thing that will determine whether or not we survive as a species.

Have you considered hoping for something more plausible? Like winning the megabucks 3 times in a row?

Before we inevitably destroy the habitability of the planet for our species in the coming decades, I mean.

I understand intimately, my friend!