Richard Dolan

But I think the dark, the thing that I see that is dark is yes, there's reason to think that A, there are multiple intelligences that are observing and interacting with us.

There's reason to think that some of those intelligences are not malevolently disposed toward us.

But there is reason to think if you really wanna go down into the rumor mill, but sometimes you wanna do that,

There has been reason to think that maybe one group, at least one group, does not have our interests at heart.

I think that's possibly true.

But the group that I would be the most afraid of is literally ourselves.

I think I'm more afraid of humanity than I am of any visiting group at this point.

I think the reason that I have a dark view, and I guess I do, I just have to own up to it,

is that I don't really think that we human beings have anywhere near the agency that we think we have, that we have the ability to guide our society in any way that is,

other than by the force of our technological development.

Like we are completely and utterly dependent on the technological society that we have created that gives us more power, gives us longer lifespan, gives us a lot of benefits that we love, right?

But we are dependent upon it and we have essentially divorced ourselves from the rest of the planet in a way that I consider to be very deeply unhealthy.

and uh and i just have a feeling we're only really only going to be here for a short period of time because people talk about climate change what i never hear people talking about is the fact that we live uh in an interglacial period during an ice age you know we live in an ice age

We live in an ice age.

We have lived, Earth has been in an ice age now for a couple of million years, especially the last 1 million years.

It's been punctuated by usually 80,000 years of like massive ice sheets and then 15,000 years at a time of, oh wow, nice warm weather, which we are in right now.

And if you look at the chart, it's,

extremely consistent and you would you would see us at the high point where we have reached this high point a number of other times in the last million years and where some people are saying it's global warming isn't gonna keep going up I keep seeing we're at the end where we're about twelve to fifteen thousand years in and we're primed to have another ice age

But whatever happens, what I guess I would say is Earth's climate is not stable, has never really been stable.

We have been in a remarkably, unusually stable climactic period of Earth's history, these last 12,000 years, since the end of the Younger Dryas.