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Posted on 7/13/20 at 10:59 am to OchoDedos
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Historically the only remedy for these type of events has been a prolonged conflict.
Or not so prolonged, in the great scheme of things. The French Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution, and Spanish Civil War didn't take all that long. Decisive winners, death to the losers, all wrapped up in under a decade.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 11:00 am to OchoDedos
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Historically the only remedy for these type of events has been a prolonged conflict.
No it hasn't. Prolonged conflicts often see a corresponding bump in fertility rates. The overall population has seen continuous since the 14th century or so, and the 20th century saw an explosion of growth, even though 7 of the 15 largest death tolls by conflict have occurred during the 20th century. The notion that conflicts show an overall depression in population or population growth isn't well-supported.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 11:43 am to OchoDedos
My wife and I discuss this often. As we've moved out of a rural agriculture-based society into an urban service economy, we've lost the ability to self sustain ourselves.
The quality of life we enjoy has made us soft, we no longer have a common need to work together to survive. Life is all about convenience these days.
Because of that, we aren't worrying about the big issues anymore and everyone has time to focus on issues that are minor in importance but major in impact.
We've gotten soft and the only way for that to change is for something to happen to remind us that we're all in this together. I don't know what that could be. We need a common goal, a shared experience, something to remind us of what's important.
At the start of COVID, I wondered if this might be it as there are very few large scale scenarios that could actually impact our way of life. It isn't going to be COVID. The next most likely scenario is some type of global conflict that threatens our survival as a nation. We're inching closer to that every day.
The quality of life we enjoy has made us soft, we no longer have a common need to work together to survive. Life is all about convenience these days.
Because of that, we aren't worrying about the big issues anymore and everyone has time to focus on issues that are minor in importance but major in impact.
We've gotten soft and the only way for that to change is for something to happen to remind us that we're all in this together. I don't know what that could be. We need a common goal, a shared experience, something to remind us of what's important.
At the start of COVID, I wondered if this might be it as there are very few large scale scenarios that could actually impact our way of life. It isn't going to be COVID. The next most likely scenario is some type of global conflict that threatens our survival as a nation. We're inching closer to that every day.
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