Man America is really such a bore: VC, Military, solving problems, weapons, war, getting it done quicker, “freedom”, is there anything else to all this, to life ?

I used to be one of those “why do people always rag on American culture?” types, but I’m getting it.

It makes me laugh how we want to automate everything without the slightest idea of what we’ll be doing once it’s all automated ? Is that the point where the USA figures out we already had a lot of good things to do ? Ha, we’ll invent the matrix and plug ourselves in.

Sorry it’s not personal but it just seems like a never ending grind instilled with the same themes over and over. Now we have “hustle culture with no job prospects due to automation”, cool plan.

Well this approach brings us also modern medicine, so we are not dying in the pool of mud from every trivially treatable malaise. We break atoms, we can almost reach the stars which is probably the only long term way to preserve mankind.

You can't have one without the other. Look at any society in history, either push forward or eventual downfall and ending up as small history lesson. Some say its human nature, some say its nature's nature.

I’m sorry but modern medicine and technologic / scientific advancements happen without the modern American psyche.

If “America” wasn’t a thing , we’d all be completely fine.

In my opinion America is pushing us to “need” to be a multi planetary species. Not the other way around. We’re taking greater risks for the growing need for monetary reward it’s unavoidable.

As others have put it, the Earth is the greatest starship we’ll ever know. We know that the trajectory we’re on will require a backup.