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Seems that way doesn't it? Look at history. Look at how people have lived for 20,000 years. In crisis, when the government fails (as it always does) neighbors take care of each other and survive. In today's world, there is so much diversity and pooled knowledge. In the communities I live in teamwork would start happening within hours. We would be rebuilding within a week. But if you live in an online world and never put down your cell phone maybe you don't know that this planet actually strives to provide for us? My friend, people have been thriving for a long time (literally forever except the last few years) without modern tech. And you think we can't live without it? Briefly? Shit. Besides, my neighborhood alone has enough knowledge to rebuild a society. We have farmers, gardner, engineers, soldiers, welders, carpenters, marijuana growers (medicine), leather workers, drunks, drug addicts, accountants, and even some old people that know just about everything.
The problem I see is the government isn't going to fall. If anything they will strengthen their position through military action using the disaster as a way to codify thier ultimate power. Think martial law and citizens being arrested or killed for trying to provide for themselves.Seems that way doesn't it? Look at history. Look at how people have lived for 20,000 years. In crisis, when the government fails (as it always does) neighbors take care of each other and survive. In today's world, there is so much diversity and pooled knowledge. In the communities I live in teamwork would start happening within hours. We would be rebuilding within a week. But if you live in an online world and never put down your cell phone maybe you don't know that this planet actually strives to provide for us? My friend, people have been thriving for a long time (literally forever except the last few years) without modern tech. And you think we can't live without it? Briefly? Shit. Besides, my neighborhood alone has enough knowledge to rebuild a society. We have farmers, gardner, engineers, soldiers, welders, carpenters, marijuana growers (medicine), leather workers, drunks, drug addicts, accountants, and even some old people that know just about everything.
When modern (or if, but it won't) modern society fails people will do what they always have. Get on with living. It will be a quick transition and honestly I think American society would emerge much healthier for it. An global EMP attack might be exactly what we need to break down the old power structures and allow all this new science a chance to put into action. I think everyone could agree a reset with clean energy and healthier food production lines would be good for the planet.
OK, yes lots and lots of people would suffer. Some would eat their children. Brother, that shit is happening right now somewhere in our world. Just because its a horrible idea to you, well I've seen both manmade and natural disasters that left thousands dead and millions homeless. And those that survived initially got on with living. Its often the still intact governments that fuck with the rebuilding process because the power that is wants things unchanged. Get rid of that power... freedom. I like freedom. A lot.
So maybe I'm short sighted... but maybe your hyperopia is ignoring what is in front of your face? But even if I'm wrong, it doesn't matter. Fun to debate though.
This is the sad truth .
Given the choice between being self-sustaining and using enabling technologies, I will reliably choose the second option. I believe we are allowed to lead a sustainable lifestyle.Few choose it, and I will tell you why I don't.
One of those near earth extinction shows talked directly to this point. How the rapid advancement of our technology could be a hindrance. Not enough knowledge of old world skills, or new technology, amongst most of the worlds general population for us to be able to rebuild societies within the same timelines as they rose in the past. The sharing of knowledge was an issue, agro areas of the world couldn't easily show the tech areas how to farm and vice versa.
I like your post. You sound like me 2 years ago. These days I leave my "smart" phone on my table at home 90% of the time. I check it occasionally like I would have an answering machine for the home phone back when I was a kid. I go to my local pub and sit at the bar and force the other people sitting there to talk to me. We talk about everything and anything. Wives. Guns. Politics. Who cares? Unimportant... it is the connection that matters.
Damn straight.
TacoTruck doesn't like being wrong.
And that is the old paradigm. We will never again be so free as when we control(led) all the knowledge. But we are embarked on a course of building a mechanical support culture. It is large, complex and very fast to react to anything new. We will HAVE to transfer the knowledge of how to run the machines ... to the machines. It is beginning, and it is a necessary surrender of power to them from us.
Company I worked at used to buy thier granite out of New Hampshire. Bigger pieces, like 10'x10' x 20" thick, and larger, as machine bases for high precision measuring equipment. IDK how they did it but they managed to find a way to get granite from China, and ship it to the east coast, cheaper than getting it state side. Then they just decided to ship to company to the granite and build just there...
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We should build a brigade of robots to chisel stone tablets with all known knowledge. Hard copy backups.And that is the old paradigm. We will never again be so free as when we control(led) all the knowledge. But we are embarked on a course of building a mechanical support culture. It is large, complex and very fast to react to anything new. We will HAVE to transfer the knowledge of how to run the machines ... to the machines. It is beginning, and it is a necessary surrender of power to them from us.
Especially as we begin to colonize off-planet, I predict that whoever has the more empowered machines will be more capable of surviving, with or without war. I do not see a primitive or primitivist community of just humans and their livestock remaining competitive.
My dad told me an eye-opener once. Every successful human society was built on the collective back of slaves. The current iteration has human slaves and many beasts of burden replaced by machines. We are embarking on a colossal exercise of trust. We are building bigger, better, smarter, more connected machines, and we expect them to remain slavishly dedicated to our will.
My logic is undeniable.
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