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Quote by: Piscean  I see a similar picture of human kind. Everything used to have meaning, life, purpose, the world around us was alive and we were a part of it. Now it's dead as is the awareness of most. We've traded purpose and life for pure function and production and in losing our connection with the earth and the spirits which govern in it, we've lost our way, as destroy the planet, (with our artificial replacement for everything alive) we destroy ourselves.Unless we manage to wipe ourselves and our technology and ways from the earth which seems likely to have happened in history before. |
Nah, this is Earth's first time with a civilization at this level. In a million years alien archaeologists may show up and find fossilized disposable diapers and unopened bags of cheetoes. Our nuclear waste dumps will still be almost as active as the day they were built. Cities can burn or wash away, but buried garbage is forever.
Perhaps I was too harsh: if they were slightly less ecologically destructive or never built cities outside of zones that have since been glaciated I suppose it works. Perhaps there's an Atlantean garbage dump somewhere on the bottom of the ocean just full of fossilized automobiles. Still, there has never been something quite like modern times.