He who tries to change the world, from a position in power, will always have the barking of the underdogs.
Its easy beeing a underdog, you dont have to provide analysis or better solutions, you dont have to proof that you are not delusional, that those you represent are good (lots of evil ex-empires among todays underdogs), all you have to do is bark and bite.
Even if you have a "desert-mumified" culture like in the middle east, that has adapted to survival in a manmade dessert, without risky progress.
Even landing a western spaceship, proofing things can thrive in the dessert, will not change what people have internalized over the centuries. Rather the local culture rubs off on the spaceship and it begins to rust into the same empire scrap yard.
Things proofen not to work:
* military interventions
* secret service interventions
* cultural nudging (soft power)
* brute force take-overs (colonialism)
Ironically, if humanity goes into desert mode, it brings the desert with it.
You produce lots of offspring for the inevitable war, when crashing into the resource ceiling.
You shun risky capitalist endavours.
You vote for one strong man and against diversity of opinion and culture. (prevents civil war, which is always worser then external warfare).
And we had that in medieval europe too, just listen to a catholic preacher and you can hear the bad times ruleset singing itself praises, less your lineage withers.
A maxed out environment is a trap, preventing complex structures and escape attempts.
@qpqpdbdbqpqp I honestly do not see were my viewpoint is racist. I argue that all of humanity, when run into a ressource spares environment, is behaviour optimized towards this loop.
The "western spaceships" aka iraq and afghanistan were doomed to fail, as all the outside surplus is converted into "catastrophe" preparations or escape plans. Would have done the same in the situation.
Israel might be a exemption for now, but even there the orthodox "survial-mode" culture is taking over the enlightment project form within.
And its universal. As soon as things run out, conservative mindsets take over and all ventures and endavours come to a screeching halt.
Sorry, if the physical limitations and the negative impression it made on humanity, scare you and your idealized view of the world.
Largely agree I think, except soft power. I think soft power is exactly what is happening in Iran. People in Iran has been living a "private" life for a long time with access to information, a "public" life which goes on as usual. Something has to give.
From an american perspective where they stayed in the back during WW1 and had to be trained on the spot, and were perfectly happy to work with nazi germany in WW2 until shit hit the fan, sure.
For most of europe, it's a traumatic experience that led to dozens of millions of dead young adults, entire cities firebombed and razed to the ground, areas shelled so hard that even today their access is forbidden.
But I'm sure it's much easier from a position of a country that never had a single war on its territory.
It helped to exaust alot of old colonial empires close to collapse, were the memberstates escaped to independence. Those two worldwars were what ate the british empire alive.
~ And you could have written a well thought out rebuttal instead of your one liner. At least the g.p spent some time on their thoughts. Have a down vote on me.
Its easy beeing a underdog, you dont have to provide analysis or better solutions, you dont have to proof that you are not delusional, that those you represent are good (lots of evil ex-empires among todays underdogs), all you have to do is bark and bite.
Even if you have a "desert-mumified" culture like in the middle east, that has adapted to survival in a manmade dessert, without risky progress.
Even landing a western spaceship, proofing things can thrive in the dessert, will not change what people have internalized over the centuries. Rather the local culture rubs off on the spaceship and it begins to rust into the same empire scrap yard.
Things proofen not to work:
* military interventions
* secret service interventions
* cultural nudging (soft power)
* brute force take-overs (colonialism)
Ironically, if humanity goes into desert mode, it brings the desert with it.
You produce lots of offspring for the inevitable war, when crashing into the resource ceiling.
You shun risky capitalist endavours.
You vote for one strong man and against diversity of opinion and culture. (prevents civil war, which is always worser then external warfare).
And we had that in medieval europe too, just listen to a catholic preacher and you can hear the bad times ruleset singing itself praises, less your lineage withers.
A maxed out environment is a trap, preventing complex structures and escape attempts.
@qpqpdbdbqpqp I honestly do not see were my viewpoint is racist. I argue that all of humanity, when run into a ressource spares environment, is behaviour optimized towards this loop.
The "western spaceships" aka iraq and afghanistan were doomed to fail, as all the outside surplus is converted into "catastrophe" preparations or escape plans. Would have done the same in the situation.
Israel might be a exemption for now, but even there the orthodox "survial-mode" culture is taking over the enlightment project form within.
And its universal. As soon as things run out, conservative mindsets take over and all ventures and endavours come to a screeching halt.
Sorry, if the physical limitations and the negative impression it made on humanity, scare you and your idealized view of the world.