The Fall of Western Civilization

[eTorro]

Hello.

I'm happy when I wake up on a dark winter morning and see that the lights are on and the highways are running.

I also like to buy a plane ticket and visit my distant relatives — the possibility of doing so makes me grateful to be alive.

I wonder about the people who did all of this; we have so many privileges these days, but nobody seems to notice how much work has been invested in infrastructure. We take for granted what society offers us — science, medicine, schools, and the Internet.

To get off the comfort zone, the mother no longer dies while giving birth; the medical system performs a clean operation, and the baby is born.

What's the cornerstone of a healthy civilization? The family unit?

The thing is: we're living in great times, and it seems to me that the Golden Age will go away.

Why is that?

Edited September 8, 2022 by eTorro

[GrandeOrso]

golden age? you mean that age in which most people are oppressed by societal structures, stuck in poverty, in which labour is close to slavery, in which technology doesnt serve humanity and makes people live better lives but instead serves the rich, in which mental health is declining for these reasons and many others combined?

that age in which individuals feel it's them against the world, no community feeling, law of the jungle, etc? 

i do agree that there is great infrastructure. but have you looked around ? people are miserable

golden age...

Edited September 8, 2022 by GrandeOrso

[Tyler Robinson]

I don't see it as a golden age exactly. 

And to say that western society is on the verge of collapse is being hyperbolic and putting it tooo simplistically. 

No it's not. 

Meanwhile I agree with you that the cornerstone of a healthy civilization is a strong family unit. 

You could say stage Blue systems are fastly dying out and being rapidly replaced by an unstable world. 

Not sure if this is good or bad. Unemployment rates are too high to vouch for great family values.