Late bronze Age Collapse

[CptTrips]

I feel we are reliving it now as Globalism unravels and the old rules and order that made us un-historically prosperous as a species the last 60 years or so, is about to collapse and we will see war, death, destruction, famine, plagues like we haven't seen for hundreds of years.



Iran is just the first.  Hotspots are going to flare up all over the place along trade routes.

The US is withdrawing from worlds protector so the old economic systems will collapse.

Without the old global trade, some places can not support their current human population.

China would be in famine in a year if say India decided not to let any ships past to China. China has poor everything.  The only way they feed their population is massive fertilization with imported inputs.

People will nostalgically look back at the relative peace and prosperity of the Reagan years and laugh, "You only had to worry about ONE nuclear-armed adversary.  And you were still rich enough to be able to afford meat."

[Busher]

While you're sharing this optimistic outlook ( I don't disagree ) any thoughts on when the Thwaite's glacier might collapse and make Maralago's top secret document storage room into an indoor pool?

[CptTrips]

While you're sharing this optimistic outlook ( I don't disagree ) any thoughts on when the Thwaite's glacier might collapse and make Maralago's top secret document storage room into an indoor pool?

I don't follow climate stuff but there are so many ways we could be toast.

Carrington Events

Yellowstone Caldera

And all the other stuff I learned about from Coast to Coast AM!

[AKKuya]

AS a multi-decade student of World History, everything in human history is cyclical.  One civilization rises to dominance, and another rises to take the top spot, over and over.  The difference is that our modern civilization has the communication and storage of information for all to know and learn from.  Past civilizations had to rely on the speed of ships and horses plus the reliance on scribes to preserve and pass on the knowledge.

We have the advantage of 20/20 hindsight to see clarity through the past.

Always find the humor among the real-life situations that can be depressing.  One day, the shape shifting lizard overlords from the center of the Earth will rise up on the crust of the Earth and take their place as our masters and we will be an integral part of their dietary needs.

 

[hazmatt]

And all the other stuff I learned about from Coast to Coast AM!

Coast to Coast! I haven't listened to that in years! It was like the AM version of Jerry Springer to me.

[CptTrips]

Past civilizations had to rely on the speed of ships and horses plus the reliance on scribes to preserve and pass on the knowledge.

That is an interesting thought.

What if a Carrington Event zapped all computers.  Not just the CPU but all the digitally store information.  Fried memory.  Fried storage.  Everywhere.

How much of our world is printed out somewhere?  How much would we lose if the electronic and magnetic media is erased?

Credit Card companies wouldn't like that.

[AKIron]

The biggest terrorist organization in the world falls and it's a bad thing? Globalism was never going to be a good thing. You know that's basically what caused WWI right?

[AKKuya]

That would be the best thing to happen in finance.

1) Worldwide commerce and banking be killed instantly
2) Banks would lose their stranglehold on consumers through loan and debt financing
3) Mortgages and rent leases be nullified and squatter's rights be the norm
4) Employers would be caught in an employee's market for years
5) Unions would be full strength
6) The billionaires and millionaires would be hundredaires.

Switching from digital to hard copy format would take so long that the world would finally catch its breath from instant communication and slow down.

The drawbacks would be awful.

1) Possible nuclear releases from no information about the world stage
2) People on life support would be lost
3) Loss of life from car crashes, plane crashes, and ships stranded in middle of oceans

Civilization will endure.  Past methods would be brought back.  Manufacturing will return and start from scratch again.

I won't argue against it.  I'm Gen X and remember the 70s and 80s.  I have a strong belief that all will work itself out in the end.

Or, the mutants from the nuclear wastelands will eat us.

[Eagler]

No better time to have cash and backups...

Proud new owner of an ecoflow delta pro 3 as a result of this last needless global confrontation...and a quieter than normal hurricane season last year...

Eagler

[icepac]

I don't follow climate stuff but there are so many ways we could be toast.

Carrington Events

Yellowstone Caldera

And all the other stuff I learned about from Coast to Coast AM!

Don't forget fighting california survivors for water. 

[AKKuya]

Don't forget fighting california survivors for water. 

They have an ocean right beside them.  Just boil the salt out of the water. 

[icepac]

California would be without water if there is a power failure statewide since they get a lot from the colorado river.   

It's empty now.

[Randy1]

Even old movies from the 1920s had used the same terms to describe the coming end.  Things change.  It sucks to us that have seen change.  It does not suck to those that have not seen change.

[DmonSlyr]

All of that is a bunch of hogwash pessimistic agnostic dooming.

Humanity is going to become more prosperous and intelligent than ever before. We are literally at the beginning of a technological revolution that will push humanity into a greater conscious. We arent even close to our true form in innovative ability and potential. If you think global humanity will be wiped out or enslaved in just 2000 years, without insane advances from our current spot in the timeline. Than there is no way in hell that we were the first most advanced civilization on the planet because we would have already reached this stage long ago in all of earth's history and we would be on version 4  or such of "earth civilization". Humanity its current form is very young from an astrological perspective so we have a lot more advancing and evolving to do, however I certainly believe there are syndicates out there holding us back and gate keeping certain things to slow down humanities growth.

[CptTrips]

All of that is a bunch of hogwash pessimistic agnostic dooming.

Uhhhmmmm.... The Late Bronze Age Collapse already happened.

1177 B.C. (or BCE if you are hip  )