An aside about the current POTUS: Trump clearly wants to remake American society as some modernized version of the 50s. Thus: After societies in almost every part of the world (including America) were already rotted to the core. If you wish to exercise some real conservatism, try a different 50s: The
, before the era of decay which led to the moral and literal bloodbath of the French Revolution. I have spoken similarly before:
I like movies that show how society will eventually break down.
Please fix your grammar. Future tense is incorrect here, as is your usage of the adverb eventually.
The post is exactly how I intended it to be worded. :)
Society cannot continue even another hundred years the way we are now.
I thought it clear, my implication was past-tense. You are most of a hundred years out of date for the collapse of anything which could be properly called a functioning society. Some might say, more than a hundred years. The problem is that those living in a post-apocalyptic desert of downfallen, zombie-like anthropoids have already forgotten what it means to be humanwhat it meant, once upon a time.
By comparison, Roman society was a zombified rotting corpse for four or five centuries before the civil machine built by long-gone forebears ran out of momentum. I can see how greater technology could have accelerated the ultimate downfall in various ways.
Whats left is to secure yourself, take care of your own, live by honour alone whereas law is meaningless, keep busy with something productive, and try to have some fun.
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My wording was correct because I was making a prediction. I believe nullius has a more optimistic view of the future than I do. :)
To the contrary! You have it backwards. I wish I had just pushed through the post which comprises the first part above. I kept having to pause and go add replies to additional posts. This happens to me all too often.
Optimism is cowardice. Spengler (writing most of a hundred years ago)