KaiserJeep wrote:By all the standards that have been applied in History, we have arrived, we are the very epitomy of success, and few have ever had the freedoms and wealth and opportunities enjoyed by citizens of the modern Democracies.
The crash is highly unlikely, unnecessary, and would not produce any quality of life improvements for anybody.
KaiserJeep wrote:onlooker, you would appear to have ingested too much of whatever you are drinking, smoking, or whatever.
onlooker wrote:NO! No we are not at the apex of a glorious civilization.. We are on accelerating spiral of degradation and decay because we have created a civilization built on an unsustainable economic, ecological, political and social matrix. And to make it worse is that we as a species are mostly oblivious to all this.
Newfie wrote:And now for something totally different....
I'm always going on about eusocial animals and how humans share some traits. I came across this TED Talk about how ant colonies make decisions. I find this stuff interesting.
https://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_gordo ... #t-1209543
My suggestion is that humans work on similar principals to ants. We reach out and touch the people we are close to and depending upon how we perceive them we make our decisions.
It may sound funny until you think of advertising. Ads are some of the people we touch in every day life. And the more we are exposed to an ad the more influence it has on us. And the ad normally does not try to prove or convience us of anything, most likely it simply makes the association. It says "Hello, I am here, your friends use me, attractive people use me." Then WE make the association that if my friends and attractive people like me us this product then we should also. Attack ads to something similar but identify the enemy.
I hold that these kind of subliminal processes have more weight on our daily living, and our long term planning, than the 1% or TPTB.
KaiserJeep wrote:It's not like the 1% will get what's coming to them, because of greed, while the rest of you righteous souls feel satisfaction about being correct about TEOTWAWKI, either. One thing is certain, the 1% will outlive us all.
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