On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Kim Jones <kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: >> >> On 27 Dec 2016, at 10:03 pm, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: >> >> If we assume the MWI, isn't it the case that we should expect the >> world to become weirder as we get older? >> >> >> >> I don’t think that only mature-age people think that the fact that Donald >> Trump got elected is weird.
(sorry) It is not just that he was elected, but all the events surrounding it, and the aesthetics of it all. It all feels very unlikely and somewhat silly. >> Perhaps your theory can be ramped up another >> tier: not only does the world seem weird to the elderly but the more human >> civilisation ages the weirder it actually does become in some real sense. > > That's a good point. > >> It >> feels a bit weird living in a pre-Donald Trump universe. Surely this >> weirdness is real and a metric of something > > I became an adult (in some sense) during the 90s. This was a decade > that felt like the end-of-History. Everything was more of less solved, > and the world would keep improving slowly but surely. There would be > no more major wars, racism and xenophobia would eventually go extinct, > and so on. Then 9/11 was a major plot twist, and things have been > getting weirder ever since. > > Trump is an unknown variable. We'll have to wait and see. I am hoping > there aren't any aliens observing us and saying something like "oh > shit, they're having a Trump-like event, let's see if they survive". > My more optimistic self expects Trump to have the same impact as most > other presidents: very little. > > Telmo. > >> Kim Jones >> >> >> Kim Jones B.Mus.GDTL >> >> Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au >> Mobile: 0450 963 719 >> Landline: 02 9389 4239 >> Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com >> >> “I’m not saying there aren’t a lot of dangerous people out there. I am >> saying a lot of them are in government" - Russell Brand >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
