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This has happened many times before, and it will keep happening because humans do not (cannot?) change their fundamental nature. Even if society as we know it d
by rackjack 5y ago
This has happened many times before, and it will keep happening because humans do not (cannot?) change their fundamental nature. Even if society as we know it dies, it'll just get reborn like a cursed phoenix. Every doomsayer seems to forget that there is nothing new under the sun, and society has "fallen" and picked itself back up over and over and over again, but this time "it used to be better" and this time "society will really die, because it's different!" Of course it's different, but humans don't change.
> Just a couple decades ago, people dreamed of simpler lives. Plumbers, electricians, doctors, lawyers, engineers, small business owners.
Please. The Roaring 20's? The Gilded Age, anyone?
- titzer 5y agoThings weren't so great after the Roman empire fell. The wreckage left in the wake of falling societies is never pretty. Look at Easter island. Things are bit different now. The economy is global, human impact on the planet is global and massive. We are beyond its carrying capacity and are quickly expending its energy reserves. But that's a different conversation. None of us were alive in the "roaring 20s", but I will point out that that was very localized to east coast cities. Trust me, there were no roaring twenties out on the prairie.