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10 Feb 2016, 8:21 pm

Luckily we are taking the necessary precautions about the pollution... Mineral exploration's been out of hand yet rational thought & sneaky engineering are gaining ground.


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11 Feb 2016, 9:13 am

Raleigh wrote:
I'm on the right planet.
I've never understood the whole wrong planet thing.
The planet is the Earth.
We were meant to live with and respect nature.

But some 'people' have the mindset that the planet needs to be conquered.
They think themselves above nature, so they divide themselves off from it.
They exploit and kill everything in it to gain wealth and prestige.
They don't care about anyone or anything but themselves.

Those are the kind of people who don't belong here.
They need to get off my planet.


A valid perspective IMO. For me the "wrong planet" idea makes a little more sense though. Yes it'd be great if they got off my planet, but I've not been able to evict them yet, so I look at my other option - to get off the planet myself and leave them to stew in their own stinking dystopian juice. Not that I have a rocket or anywhere to go. The "wrong planet" idea is allegorical I reckon, it points to an imaginary "right planet" where all is hunky dory. Where the analogy breaks down for me is that I don't think there'd be fewer social problems if we Aspies had the planet to ourselves. Some stuff would be better, other stuff would be worse. We wouldn't be dismissed as mentally disabled or weird so much, but there'd be a very high concentration of mind-blindness, and poor social skills in general. This concept of a perfect place somewhere out there has been around for thousands of years. I don't think it exists, it's just an ideal to work towards, we'll never get there 100% of course.



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11 Feb 2016, 9:24 am

"Sneaky engineering." Heh, I like that a lot. And it's a topic I find very interesting. Do you have some examples of what inspired that tag? I doubt googling "sneaky engineering" would help much.


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