[AgentR11]

VM, poster of "Alien visitors shaped human civilization..." , telling us that we're losing our marbles.

right.

[vision-master]

VM, poster of "Alien visitors shaped human civilization..." , telling us that we're losing our marbles.

right.

This Going Dark is cultish religious nonsense talk.

• Antibiotic resistance. Natural selection would create super bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, devastating the world population and causing a global collapse of civilization.
• Catastrophe theory predicts a software-complexity tipping point when the integrated world becomes vulnerable to disastrous bugs in the system.
• Demography. Demographic trends create a "baby bust" that threatens the order of civilization as we know it.
• Dysgenics. A lack of natural selection and the tendency of the more intelligent to have fewer children would lower the average health and intelligence enough to lead to an eventual collapse of civilization.
• Ecology. Natural resources are used up, or the environment is so damaged through pollution and destruction that civilization fails.
• Finance. Markets fail worldwide, resulting in economic collapse: mass unemployment, rioting, famine, and death.
• Infertility. Human fertility continues to decline, eventually ending with no fertile humans left to continue the species.
• Insanity. Mass insanity.
• Peak oil. Oil runs out before an economically viable replacement is devised, leading to global chaos.
• Telomere. Some researchers theorize a tiny loss of telomere length from one generation to the next, mirroring the process of aging in individuals. Over thousands of generations the telomere erodes down to its critical level. Once at the critical level we would expect to see outbreaks of age-related diseases occurring earlier in life and finally a population crash.
• World government. Misguided world government caps progress, leading to stagnation and reversals of Civilization.


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[AgentR11]

VM, poster of "Alien visitors shaped human civilization..." , telling us that we're losing our marbles.
right.

This Going Dark is cultish religious nonsense talk.

Most of it is; however, I don't think the climate one is. (*fast* climate change though... that bears the markers of, err, oddity.)

For the others, there *are* problems that place some downward force on civilization and progress, but they aren't "Going Dark". Some, I think are even long term healthy, if it weren't for the climate ax dangling.

• Peak oil. Oil runs out before an economically viable replacement is devised, leading to global chaos.

That's the discovery channel/book hawker version. The more rational, PO.com version, is that depletion reduces the amount of really cheap, easy to use oil available to civilization, causing expensive energy and a series of market adaptations to high cost that impede economic growth; but the lights stay on, and the apple jacks still make it to the store shelves.

That said, purveyors of Alien Visitation don't get to use the word "cultish"; at least not in my rule book! lol.

[vision-master]

That said, purveyors of Alien Visitation don't get to use the word "cultish"; at least not in my rule book! lol.

No, they go off the earliest known writings....... lsol

The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation.

1. When in the height heaven was not named,

2. And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,

3. And the primeval Apsû, who begat them,

4. And chaos, Tiamat, the mother of them both,—

5. Their waters were mingled together,

6. And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;

7. When of the gods none had been called into being,

8. And none bore a name, and no destinies [were ordained];

9. Then were created the gods in the midst of [heaven],


http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/stc/stc04.htm