Graeme wrote:We are in the era of PO but global economic collapse hasn't occurred hopefully not ever. I acknowledge that we are standing on a knife edge so the outcome is far from certain.
Most human civilizations have come and gone in a few short centuries. Exceptional ones like the Byzantine Empire or the Egyption Middle Period have lasted just over a thousand. The longest continuing dynasty to date is the Japanese Emporer with his family tree being traced back to 660 BC. However even that extended history going back over two thousand years has seen Japanese culture rise, fall, change and rise again more than once. Most everything else in Japan has changed over the last 2674 years, even though the family tree of the Emporer has not. The Han dynasty, the Chi'in dynasty both lasted hudreds of years before being supplanted, but today they are just history lessons in dusty old books.
One of the most frequent phrases is my Christian Bible is,
it came to pass
. Nothing but God is eternal, though many do not share my faith I believe this to be a fundamental truth. Using my Kindle to search my electronic edition of the Bible turns up over 100 passages where the phrase is used. Nothing made by humans, no person, no culture, no civilization lasts forever, everything made by humans is such that it came to pass.
I hope our civilization out lives me by hundreds of years, but the evidence of my senses tells me at this point, it came to pass.