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Anyone who’s aware of history can’t help but suspect we’re witnessing the end of our civilization. Thanks to modern technologies, the forces that previously could take hundreds of years to fracture and finally destroy a civilization can today enable the same processes to occur over a few decades.
Today, modern technologies have enabled populism to sweep the globe and carry blustering halfwits to power. The policies these liars and frauds promulgate then further accelerate the fracturing of civilization and former norms of behavior, thus leading to even more inadequate creatures coming to power, whose policies are even more inept than those that went before, and so the acceleration is exponential.
Although most people can’t see past the surface details (the recent UK election, the Trump futile impeachment proceedings, Bolsonaro’s destruction of the Amazon rainforest, etc.) the fact is that for the first time in history the entire world is synchronized. When the civilization of the Indus Valley around Mohenjo Daro collapsed it meant nothing to the civilization on Crete that left us Knossos. When the Roman Empire finally collapsed some sixteen hundred years ago it didn’t impact Chinese civilization and was unfelt in the Andes. But today the collapse of the West will…
