Awkward NRx insight: Fascist lunacy is far better tailored to popular acceptance than NRx. ...
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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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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 past was defined by alternating periods of expansion and contraction, but all times suffering was present. The future is defined by alternating periods of expansion and contraction, with delusion-inducing levels of luxury present at all times.
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trade networks don't secure themselves, it requires hegemonic power and a highly specialized labor force capable of operating systematically
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once that flags, economic entities reorient themselves toward localism and it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle
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but that doesn't mean the current political climate is eternal lol
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What I'm trying to say is that this time it's different: you have to fight for your island of sanity.
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Technology abolishes social technology by relaxing threats to survival to the point where humans lose their self-discipline. Mass delusion is the mental version of obesity. You can have an obesity epidemic with no meaningful collapse.
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