Nothing lasts forever, and we have been on the downturn of the civilization for the last hundred years or so. This is merely the time when we started running out of the reserves that our ancestors had secured us, and thus problems started becoming apparent.
Is everything falling apart?
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#22> The framing begins with appreciating how closely intertwined the divisive and unifying effects of information technology can be. The author speaks as if "unifying", as opposed to dividing, is the redemptive quality of information technology. I don't see it as an unmitigated good and, somewhat ironically, the story of the tower of Babel is about how their single-purposedness (?) was the source of the problem altoget…
My toddler has learned how to use a stool, and it has given me a new deep and profound sympathy for G-d in the story.
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#23Yesterday I made the comment "everything is collapsing underneath" though there's context etc. I think the better way to say it. "Is everything falling apart for the USA?" Yes indeed. Most other countries have problems. Sure Sri Lanka has the same problems. Sure the middle east just went through the same problems and some states are still enduring civil war. Though from what I can tell it's mostly the USA in this 'fa…
> The fix to the USA falling apart is free and open discussions between the camps. This is what Elon is planning to do with twitter.
Nice, now you just have to convince the MAGA Republican and the BLM Democrat to have an open discussion, when each of them prefers to listen to their own social bubble. Good luck with that...
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#25I think some things are falling apart but not everything. If you had the foresight/luck/guidance to get into a stable white collar career, find a partner, and buy a house before 2022 I think you're on "the train". This train is currently pulling away from a burning station containing everyone else who hasn't done those things yet. It's still possible to escape the station by running down the tracks but at this point…
Or you can just wait for the next stop and get on there.
How do you get to the next stop?
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#26The constant theme since the dawn of civilization threaded through all of history is that everything is falling apart. Change is continual. History is more like the seasons. Nations rise. Nations fall. Sometimes there's revolt. Sometimes there's peace. There's a continual game of King of the Mountain being played at all levels. So what can we say? Situation Normal - all effed up! Enjoy this phenomenon called life. Yo…
> Nations rise. ... Sometimes there's peace.
In short: sometimes things aren't falling apart.
For a few decades we enjoyed one of the great periods of peace and prosperity. That was surely doomed to end eventually, but I wish it could last a while longer.
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#27Yesterday I made the comment "everything is collapsing underneath" though there's context etc. I think the better way to say it. "Is everything falling apart for the USA?" Yes indeed. Most other countries have problems. Sure Sri Lanka has the same problems. Sure the middle east just went through the same problems and some states are still enduring civil war. Though from what I can tell it's mostly the USA in this 'fa…
> This is what Elon is planning to do with twitter. The only things Elon is planning to do with twitter is to silence his critics, become a Rupert Murdoch style figure, and keep manipulating stock prices.
If it makes anyone feel any better, Musk's Twitter acquisition reminds me of Buffett's acquisition of Berkshire Hathaway -- he did it because he was assmad and is likely to take a bath on it.
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#28"Everything is falling apart" if you are someone who contributes information to the public sector in the form of analysis, scientific studies, news reporting, etc and your audience was built solely on your credentials, or the organization you belong to being respected. Those credentials and institutions are collapsing and they need to rebuild public trust by providing legitimate value instead of spending the next 10 years whining about how the commoners just don't get how valuable they are.
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#29I think some things are falling apart but not everything. If you had the foresight/luck/guidance to get into a stable white collar career, find a partner, and buy a house before 2022 I think you're on "the train". This train is currently pulling away from a burning station containing everyone else who hasn't done those things yet. It's still possible to escape the station by running down the tracks but at this point…
Or you can just wait for the next stop and get on there.
As someone born in and has all my family in BC, Canada; I barely lucked out securing a house in 2020. This was thanks to a white collar career and financially literate partner.
There is no next stop. Look at Canada's housing crisis if you want to see where the United States is headed.
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> For millennia every human has known what a woman and a man is, now even supreme court justices in American don't know.
What does this mean? Are you talking about gender or sex?