And so, one cannot help but suspect that this is all intentional; as unbelievable as it may sound, the price is a good life for a select few, while the rest simply doesn’t matter. A thousand excuses: if I don’t do it, someone else will; I can’t save the world; I was just following orders, carrying out an assignment, or closing a deal. There are too many people anyway—who cares? Yet who lives long enough to actually benefit from it? No one (though that isn’t how far ahead any of them are thinking).

For the same reason that the parties in government aren’t the ones seriously implementing the best possible adaptations for the population: lobbying, lobbying, lobbying—and everyone has a price. Well, there you go.

Did sleepy Donni not have a good afternoon nap and is now grumpy, huh?

Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine, just for a moment, that we all simply stopped playing along globally—that the colorful paper money was no longer accepted anywhere, and people helped and provided for one another, while the super-rich and all the other drivers of right-wing parties were valued solely for their actual skills. Oh, what fun that would be. They would lose all their power in an instant. It’s utopian, sure—but I would have said the same thing about current global politics just a few years ago.

And guess what’s next for right-wing leaders :( (And yes, I see the irony regarding today’s politicians.)

Just for my synapses, currently fried under this heat dome, the question boils down to this: would I rather suffer a bit more for the sake of AI, or for the prospect that things might actually get better on this planet again? So, it’s a straight-up choice between selfishness and the collective good - and well, we know just how brilliantly those kinds of questions work out for our species :/

Nicht mein Kanzler >:(