03-10-2017, 04:10 PM
(03-10-2017, 03:06 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Not really. This is how empires collapse. Their own people stop believing in them. If we're lucky, we'll be more like Rome and less like the USSR and have a saeculum of crisis and decay before total collapse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_...rd_Century
It just so happens that such a devlopment would play right into my Mega-Saeculum theory which has been much poo-pooed by the Boomers here.
In other words, you would prefer to be dead rather then have to deal with the real shit-storm of collapse. Not a completely unreasonable position even though it means future generations will have a harder time of it. I would say you were acting like a Boomer but unlike them you did not cause the problem and are not in a position to stop the process.
Lord Rees-Mogg and James Davidson wrote about a similar process in history where the western history undergoes a major crisis and evolution about every five hundred years.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises