[RD] Why is there so much suffering in the world?

[Manfred Belheim]

Why wouldn't there be? [answer to the OP (by which I actually mean "thread title"), ignoring 16 pages of replies]

 

[yung.carl.jung]

It is astonishing that we can even to sort of simulate such a mode of governance.

I agree. It's like the entire world is Wile E. Coyote running of a cliff and refusing to look down. It's a beautiful metaphor in many different ways. We act completely routinely even in the face of a crisis. Many of us reject hypercapitalism and the rule of corporations yet do not see any meaningful alternative to capitalism. I think your choice of words "simulation" was impeccable, the post-Trump world genuinely sounds like Baudrillardian fan-fiction

 

[Agent327]

Why wouldn't there be? [answer to the OP (by which I actually mean "thread title"), ignoring 16 pages of replies]

Is probably the right answer.