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(05-08-2019, 10:01 AM)David Horn Wrote:
(05-08-2019, 09:13 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Given that I expect the next saeculum to be what I call a Mega-Crisis I fully expect the current 4T to peter out.  It sets up an entire saeculum of going from one crisis, to an other until the whole currently modern order comes down in a bloody revolution.  Much like the French Revolution ended the Late Medieval order in 1789.

Possible, though unlikely.  We are advancing so quickly in all areas of technology, that something as bizarre as transhumanism may emerge before the next 4T.

I see global warming likely to inundate farmland and prime urban real estate with possible consequences of famine and legal anarchy (on property ownership). Much infrastructure will have to be rebuilt -- in new places. I see the potential of horrific war.

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Kinser79 Wrote:AGW is a non-issue really.  Climate change is real to be sure, but I think that the Sun has far more to do with it than burning coal.  Additional CO2 in the atmosphere is met with additional plants.  Indeed the Planet is greening in spite of the best efforts of the so-called environmentalists.

I know better.  Global temperatures are rising for the simple reason that less heat is reradiated into space than the amount radiated in.  That will be true as long as the amount of CO2 remains higher than the ideal, and the global temperature hasn't yet reached stasis.  Plant growth can't fix that quickly enough, and total plant capacity is declining in any case.


As I said above... "King Neptune" will be seizing property as ruthlessly as a Bolshevik commissar. Carbon dioxide  will rise until the plants that can process it start appearing in large numbers in arctic and subarctic regions. Kinser does not understand the biological reality of carbon dioxide.

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Kinser79 Wrote:Wealth inequality is also a non-issue.  Wealth has never been equally distributed unless one's goal is to make everyone equally poor.  It is far easier to tear down those on the heights then it is to raise up the degraded.

When the head of the Disney Corporation makes 1,400 times the average salary of Disney workers, and no redress through labor action is possible -- especially for Disney World employees -- the largest part of the work force.  These so-called Right to Work laws have so totally bent the power curve in favor of capital and management, that some breakdown has been inevitable for a long time.  The imbalance I high enough now, that another major recession may be all it takes to trigger some massive action … hopefully peaceful, though no guarantee of that.

Wealth inequality and income inequality go together, and they can be so severe that they create mass resentments. The poor are much more vulnerable to any economic shock from inflation to shortages, and are more likely to fall for extremists and demagogues, Right and Left.

Economic inequality and plutocracy go together, too -- as shown in the power of corporate lobbyists responsible solely to their super-rich paymasters who monitor the voting of their effective subordinates, nominally-elected politicians who sell out to the richest supporters.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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