Awkward NRx insight: Fascist lunacy is far better tailored to popular acceptance than NRx. ...
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... Populism drives the civilizational tragedy. NRx just gets to formulate the ironic narrative about it.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I'm the last to ever call nrx a winning strategy but this is fatalistic and ignorant of history
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Replying to @alicemazzy @Outsideness
at the very least both napoleon and augustus followed on the heels of rather famous uh, bouts of populism
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Replying to @alicemazzy @Outsideness
personally I don't think we're getting anything better without a few decades of anarchy and bloodshed, eventually people w ill take order as a terminal value
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Replying to @alicemazzy @Outsideness
Nothing is going to collapse in any meaningful way. The highest technology the Romans had was the arch. We have way more than that. It's too far down to be considered collapse. What will happen are islands of competence in a sea of dysfunction.
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Replying to @AMK2934 @Outsideness
I think slow decline is more likely than sudden implosion but to assert our technological advancement *precludes* it is asinine
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increasing complexity entails increasing fragility. when complex societies fall apart, people invariably fall back on simpler forms
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also neither of the examples I gave were collapses, they were periods of intense strife followed by top-down reorganization
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if you want collapse look to the disintegration of the mycenean palace economies or the crisis of the third century
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The word your looking for is not collapse but "pervasive self-sabotaging incompetence"
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