William Keefer
asked
Eric Michael Craig:
Your Atlas and the Winds books concern future crises. What do you think is on the horizon in the real world? Are we doomed to worsening crises, or might better days come?
Eric Michael Craig
I am actually an optimist about the future. I really am.
However, I think there are some damned bumpy things coming at us first. We’re making a LOT of mistakes in the present, and I think those mistakes are going to build up to an almost insurmountable wall of problems for ourselves and for several generations to come. To me, most of the problems we will face come from our short-sighted planning, and by millennia of political division. Certainly, there are things developing that are beyond our own creation, but regardless, until we can see past our piles of self-made chaos, we will have little hope of addressing these issues.
I also think there are some rays of hope starting to manifest for our future. There are people who are coming into positions of influence that are clearly seeing the changes that HAVE to happen to get us past our current state of existence and into a post-scarcity world (and I am not talking metaphysically here).
If we organize ourselves so that we all start to follow these different approaches then I think we have a chance.
I believe in hope, and hope dies hard!
However, I think there are some damned bumpy things coming at us first. We’re making a LOT of mistakes in the present, and I think those mistakes are going to build up to an almost insurmountable wall of problems for ourselves and for several generations to come. To me, most of the problems we will face come from our short-sighted planning, and by millennia of political division. Certainly, there are things developing that are beyond our own creation, but regardless, until we can see past our piles of self-made chaos, we will have little hope of addressing these issues.
I also think there are some rays of hope starting to manifest for our future. There are people who are coming into positions of influence that are clearly seeing the changes that HAVE to happen to get us past our current state of existence and into a post-scarcity world (and I am not talking metaphysically here).
If we organize ourselves so that we all start to follow these different approaches then I think we have a chance.
I believe in hope, and hope dies hard!
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