[ExI] Who has a vote that counts?

[Will Steinberg]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 10:54 William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> We younger people have very little hope for the future.   will
>
> Have you heard of the self-fulfilling prophecy?  Of course you have. My
> parents lived through two WWs and a deep Depression.  I never heard them
> say that any of that ruined their lives.
>

No offense to your parents, but the world is far more poised today to be
destroyed than it was back then.

I hope your attitude doesn't spread.  Last thing we need is a national
> emotional depression.
>

Er...it's too late.  Hate to break it to you, but there is a national
emotional depression among young people.

Putting aside everything but nuclear war, things are pretty dismal.

On the topic of nuclear war, do you think we won't have a nuclear war in
the next 80 years?  I think it is likely
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