There are lots of potential proximal causes. Root cause likely to be that humans aren’t well-suited for the level of peace and scale of cooperation that we’ve seen for the last few hundred years.
I was trying to get to something less handwavy. “Humans aren’t well-suited” isn’t it.
And anyway, your line of argument leads to the conclusion that we are just living constantly and permanently in the “post-collapse” state. Past the Golden Age, kicked out of the Garden of Eden, etc. etc.
Yeah, I can’t predict more concretely than that—the obvious paths are somewhat preventable/recoverable. My intended argument is that we’re not past the golden age, we’re in a golden age. It may be so golden that it’s the last one, or it may be just one of an very long series.
There are lots of potential proximal causes. Root cause likely to be that humans aren’t well-suited for the level of peace and scale of cooperation that we’ve seen for the last few hundred years.
I was trying to get to something less handwavy. “Humans aren’t well-suited” isn’t it.
And anyway, your line of argument leads to the conclusion that we are just living constantly and permanently in the “post-collapse” state. Past the Golden Age, kicked out of the Garden of Eden, etc. etc.
Yeah, I can’t predict more concretely than that—the obvious paths are somewhat preventable/recoverable. My intended argument is that we’re not past the golden age, we’re in a golden age. It may be so golden that it’s the last one, or it may be just one of an very long series.
Does that imply a coming collapse? Or can the ages get more and more golden?