Zero Sum
Agreed, it’s not a question of if, but when we’re going to fall, how fast and how far.
All civilizations at some point stagnate and either implode, or decline to a more primitive, less sophisticated state, which they may or may not have the capacity to recover from, in the distant future, and ours is no exception.
It’s natural law, it doesn’t matter whether we acknowledge it or not, but at least if we did, we could prepare for it.
The ‘recession’ of 08 was nothing, we’re talking about a worldwide permanent recession, where the economy and our capacity to extract resources from the ecosystem incrementally declines over the course of centuries, or implodes: nuclear and viral warfare, all hell breaking loose, another mass extinction event, the likes of which the earth hasn’t seen since the end of the cretaceous.
Right, the crumbling of the US economy would doom the world as we know it.
I’m not exactly looking forward to such a scenario, as I, perhaps a little less mentally than most, but as much materially, would be caught with my pants down, and would have as much chance of surviving as Joe average or in other words, next to 0.
I’m hoping for a more a gradual decline, which will give me a chance to make some preparations, but decline is inevitable, and in the long run, desirable, for valuable lessons can be learned from it, for ourselves as individuals, and as a species, if we survive it.
And I mean if it is going to be a massive, overnight plummet, a freefall free for all, there’s only so much you can do anyway, most, if not all people are probably going to die, and who, if anyone survives is going to be determined by luck as much as skill.
While there’s a few things I liked about him, his political incorrectness and such, he is all of the above: a Zionist, capitalist and megalomaniac.
I couldn’t care less about Israelis, I think they should have to fend for themselves alone, among the peoples they’ve antagonized.
I’m mostly against capitalism, either it should be replaced with different systems, each region of the world can go its own way, and/or we should have no systems at all, and let chaos reign.
We’ve built our civilization around the premise of limitless economic competition and expansion, and while it may’ve served us in some ways for a little while, and no system is perfect, it’s become totally unsustainable, we need to radically change course and/or prepare for death/destruction.
