Civilizations that are on tracks of
continuance may do sub-optimal or even regrettable or tragic things as they
confront problems. Decaying and
declining civilizations exhibit denial, delay, or even refusal to confront
pressing problems.
America leads the decay. The rest of “Western” civilization is making
some attempts to confront its problems, albeit with significant drag from the
millstone of the dysfunctional US colossus. And Western Europe has a lot of problems, chief among them the same manpower
and population problems it had during late Roman times.
Albert Einstein supposedly once worried that our technology
would one day make us idiots and fools who don’t talk to each other, but at
best only (and even then disconnectedly) to a limited group of people who “think”
like us. Wonder what he would say today?
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