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Written by Ailantd Sikowsky🔻 on 2025-02-01 at 13:03

If you ever wonder how civilizations were able to reach enlightenment and then lost it all in just a few generations, we are now experiencing it in real time, and it feels as sad as I would have imagined.

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Written by Laurent 🫠 on 2025-02-01 at 13:50

@Ailantd it feels even sader to me, tbh. Because we collectively know what to do to prevent what's coming... but still, we wait for someone else to take that in charge.

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Written by MostlyTato on 2025-02-01 at 15:51

@Ailantd

The only people who ever really learn from history are historians (and archaeologists!), and no one really listens to them.

So around and around it goes, each fall losing more than the last, until finally there is nothing left.

There is a way through it, but the last human species needs to learn some humility to see it, and that is always in short supply in the upper echelons of power.

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Written by Miguel on 2025-02-01 at 16:00

@Ailantd I am hoping that the sentence "history repeats itself" is not true

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Written by Ailantd Sikowsky🔻 on 2025-02-01 at 18:17

@kamapu Not be the first time someone hopes that, though.

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Written by Brian Hawthorne on 2025-02-01 at 16:28

@Ailantd @LJ Are you ready for Dark Ages, The Sequel?

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Written by Ailantd Sikowsky🔻 on 2025-02-01 at 18:18

@bhawthorne @LJ it's coming fast.

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Written by Raul Portales on 2025-02-01 at 16:54

@Ailantd I don't think we actually reached enlightenments, we did feel short

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Written by Ailantd Sikowsky🔻 on 2025-02-01 at 18:19

@Sh41 At least at some point we reached some respect for actual knowledge.

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Written by Raul Portales on 2025-02-01 at 18:23

@Ailantd locally yes, but not globally as a species

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Written by Ailantd Sikowsky🔻 on 2025-02-01 at 18:26

@Sh41 Sure thing.

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Written by Medea Vanamonde on 2025-02-01 at 17:32

@Ailantd @lisamelton is so much of a bug as a feature of your species

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Written by CaseyL on 2025-02-01 at 17:43

@Ailantd

It's been quite the education, watching the West generally and the US in particular deliberately, and with malice aforethought, turn its back on what multiple generations before us struggled to build.

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Written by Martin Seeger on 2025-02-01 at 18:12

@Ailantd I never understood the fall of the Roman Empire while in school. All the explanations didn’t make sense. But now I have a life-like image and understand it.

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Written by Ailantd Sikowsky🔻 on 2025-02-01 at 18:20

@masek That's me too.

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Written by Darrin West on 2025-02-01 at 18:12

@Ailantd I don’t think the things being lost in the US are also lost to humanity as a whole. Eg Canadian librarians will send books after the US stops burning. I don’t think there is much that is uniquely American that will be missed. Its brand of capitalism and imperialism and corruptible government is not that appetizing. If you think good things are being permanently lost worldwide, that’s different. Maybe the investment in infrastructure should be mourned. We’ll have to rebuild a lot of school systems, for example.

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Written by Ailantd Sikowsky🔻 on 2025-02-01 at 18:23

@obviousdwest I think I have my hopes in Asia at this point.

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Written by Itchi5 illustrations on 2025-02-01 at 18:33

@Ailantd

By all means, it's corporations who make most of the big problems here on earth.

Also, it's society itself who keeps financially empowering those same corporations by using their services.

This world will be back on it's feet as soon as people stop using corporate services.

There is a lot of hope, people just gotta realise it and switch to non-corporate services. 😊

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