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I thoroughly enjoyed this article... as someone who does believe in an eventual collapse I really appreciated the balanced approach while still making some fun
by gooseus 10y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this article... as someone who does believe in an eventual collapse I really appreciated the balanced approach while still making some fun of the fringe elements.
For the record, my belief is in a non-specific collapse based on the increasingly built-in fragility and complexity of civilization as espoused by Joseph Tainter[1] in his book "The Collapse of Complex Societies"[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter
[2] https://monoskop.org/images/a/ab/Tainter_Joseph_The_Collapse_of_Complex_Societies.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/a/ab/Tainter_Joseph_The_Collapse...
https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology/dp/B001AOZ3PM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1469399383&sr=1-1&keywords=collapse+of+complex+societies#navbar https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Ar...
- GrumpyYoungMan 10y agoThe science historian, James Burke, had a sobering walkthrough of the consequences of a large-scale failure of technology in the first episode of the first of his classic "Connections" series: "The Trigger Effect" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnwpsp_veetle-connections-s01e01-the-trigger-effect_tech http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnwpsp_veetle-connections-s... (Even more sobering is that, nearly 40 years after this series was filmed, we have a new layer of technological dependence: telecoms networks and data services. This would greatly amplify a lot of the things that Burke describes.)