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Civilization is nothing more than an elaborate game...
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Dave Pollard:
Civilization is nothing more than an elaborate game we have all agreed to play because the rules appear to be mostly fair, and the scorekeeping mostly truthful.
Those of us on the pessimistic side of the blogosphere have been predicting the collapse of civilization in this century, brought about by some combination of overpopulation, overconsumption, global warming, the end of oil, epidemic disease, cascading natural disasters and universal access to recipes for weapons of mass destruction. What we may not have noticed, like those in the Great Depression who didn't call it that until it had been in full swing for four years, is that civilizational collapse has already begun. Not with any of the aforementioned 'bangs' but with a whimper: the loss of importance of law and truth, as the belief and respect of many for them has slowly eroded to nothing.
Depressing thoughts: the game is already over, we just haven't realized it. I think he may well be right.
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