Makes one back-handedly glad that the Long Descent is already started, meaning that a time not tooArchived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on August 23, 2019, 6:37 pm, in reply to "The future of fakery"
far ahead will - probably - see the total breakdown of the increasingly-brittle uber-hitech electronic super-structure of modern industrial society; this as hitech industrialism in general slides down the devolution curve on the back side of The Limits To Growth.
Odd to find comfort in such a prospect; but look at the alternative, as touched on briefly in this thread. Will China/Russia be able to make themselves islands of surviving hitechery, in a steadily ebbing global ocean? I wouldn't give them short odds. No-one, anywhere in the world, is immune from these supra-human devolution processes: the Synergising Global Crises. With Bolsonaro clones running things everywhere, as brainless unwitting suicidal-yeast-like assistants to the SGCs, things will nosedive further, before we hit bottom and re-bound.