Reply #3: The fork in the road was 2000 [View All]

Perhaps I am being too Amerocentric, but it may well turn out that was THE Point of No Return, the moemtn when humanity chose extinction.

Because it is quite clear that Totalitarianism and BushPutinism (the latter is merely the newest branch of the former) are on the rise and darkenss is covering the world, maybe for the last time (though I still expect the human race to keep kicking, most miserably for a coupel millenia still until the last of us die out).

Maybe not, maybe so, but I still stand by that the Bush Coup D'Etat may well have represented humanity choosing species death over the possibility of going to the stars.

Now, of course, no one is going to the stars. Our only hope for THAt as a species, I think, is to let the coming dark Age run itself out and wait for the next Reneissance.

Problem is, with the environment collapsing, extinction might come before that 1000 years or so we will have to wait.