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Could you be more specific about what "decent wisdom of civilization builders" we've disregarded...?

• whathaschanged 9y ago
  Put your citizens first. Once they are all protected, clothed, fed and sheltered, then and only then should a civilization support others.
• bitL 9y ago
  We completely disregard "evolutionary development" of civilization and replacing it with artificial reductionist constructs without understanding their consequences. Like allowing "unlimited" QA, and expecting money to trickle down, somehow pretending that passing through super-efficient money extractors won't get in the way. Increasing costs/financial burden on regular population while keeping real wages on the level 30 years ago, and then being surprised B2C businesses can't grow anymore or go bust. Pretending that simple performance metrics tell us all we need about economy, while having supercomputers in our pockets we use to take selfies and present our vapid lives. Developing tech that could solve many problems of mankind and turning it instead into enforcers of disgusting ways that didn't work before and in some countries already into tools of ultimate oppression. We are in the initial phase of world-wide civilization collapse, yet we pretend everything is rosy and could go on like this forever (while competent are buying bunkers in New Zealand).
  • Danihan 9y ago
    That seems pretty complex for distilled wisdom... ^ IMO we just live in fairly unprecedented times. Most people are still learning how to cope with new technologies and moral norms while trying not to completely throw away sacred traditions.