Could be, although you could say the Romans planted the early seeds of industrialization, and they were still pagan.
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Hard to tap into interdimensional cosmic radio if the species goes extinct, m8.
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It definitely does.
I'm not sure if it does *right now*, mind, but the Venn diagram of 1-planet species and technological advancement is called "extinction risk".
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I don't know how long that timeline needs to be, necessarily. There are people alive today who were adults when nukes were invented.
And that's a very finite game.
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I unironically wonder if global pandemic is as close as we're getting to a fighting chance.
We're at levels of embedded corruption that do resemble early medieval Europe. The Black Death really did a number on the power brokers back then.
But we are also interdependent now...
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Sometimes I look at all this and I wonder why I'm still messing around with sideshows like linguistics.
Doomer fatigue, maybe.
... so disruption of trade et al. means something rather different than it did back then.
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