Joss is my HERO! by Niki2

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Joss is my HERO!

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 15:23
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:38 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I rarely, if ever, buy "supermarket rags" or mags, but Joss being on the cover...I bought Entertainment Weekly. Really NEAT interview, I enjoyed it immensely, and I highly recommend it. It blew me away when I hit this one:

E.W.: "Fringe" showrunner J.H. Wyman recently gave his take on the future: "I believe in hope, and I believe that we are good. And I believe that we are smart, and I believe that we are going to stop anything terrible from happening." And I found that interesting because you once said the opposite: "I think the world is largely awful and getting worse, and eventually the human race will die out. And it'll be our own fault."

Joss: I think that's absolutely the case. I think we're actually becoming stupider and more petty. I think we have one shot--and that's education, and that's being defunded along with all the social services. What's going on in this country, and many countries, is beyond depressing. It's terrifying. Sometimes I have to remember who I'm talking to. I'll say something about climate change, how terrible things are, and meaningless, and the world is headed toward destruction and war and apocalypse. And at one point my daughter goes "Hey! I'm 8!" She doesn't ant to hear that stuff. But I can't believe anybody thinks we're actually going to make it before we destroy the planet. I honestly think it's inevitable. I have no hope.

Wow. Exactly what I believe, and a good part of the reason I DON'T have kids. I hate it, just as much as he does, but it blows my mind to see him actually SAY it!

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013 3:23 PM

BYTEMITE

I agree with Joss, but with some caveats.

We're not going to destroy the planet. 9_9 The planet is four billion years old and managed to outlast having a good fifth or so of the crust ejected from the surface by an asteroid impact to form the moon. There are also various limitations for Earth in regards to extreme events like a Venusuvian runaway greenhouse effect or Marsian atmosphere loss. So whatever happens with the climate will probably over a very long period of time eventually reach an equilibrium - though likely without any of us or existing animal species as we know them still around.

We PROBABLY will destroy ourselves. It might be by climate change, but it's a good bet it'll be via something even dumber. 100 years is a pretty long time for a civilization after all, and look at all the lovely chemical and biological weapons our idiot scientists are working on. And that's without a possible Artificial Intelligence war or nanotechnology doomsday.

You're an existential cynic, Joss. Remember existentialism? Life sucks and we're all going to die anyway? The means by which we die are actually not all that important.

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