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The decadent heights of empires are also often times of great technical, scientific, and philosophical achievement. As politics becomes more and more of a dumps
by api 6y ago
The decadent heights of empires are also often times of great technical, scientific, and philosophical achievement. As politics becomes more and more of a dumpster fire, the availability of resources enables great things.
America and her empire is starting to look like that. Our presidents are likely to continue to include a lot of con men and celebrities and every aspect of our political system seems to be becoming more decadent, but we are building fleets of spaceships and are coming up on 3nm feature density for microprocessors.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoBut if politics were less of a dumpster fire, there would be even more resources to enable great things. And to me, the politics looks very much like the decadent heights of empires, not just that it's a dysfunctional dumpster fire, but the way it's dysfunctional. It's dysfunctional because it's insane amounts of infighting, as if the country's health and dominance was forever, and so we're free to fight over who gets the wealth, and nobody needs to keep an eye on making sure that the wealth keeps coming. That pattern has historically worked out very badly for empires...