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@ mleku
2025-05-16 10:45:17
collapse, of course
the reason being that centralization attracts those with lust for power because it lowers their opportunity cost, and to maintain their power they must artificially suppress superior competitors
what is missing from the result of the path to the stars is widespread understanding of the techniques of deception, psychological warfare and manipulation
until enough people understand this, those who use these techniques have an unfair advantage and the fruit of their success is the ruin of civilization
and that's an unlikely to avoid fate while we continue to have people who have been raised under this system of corruption that emphasises their lowest, base impulses and hides and deprecates higher, spiritual impulses that have a higher personal cost but a net personal and public benefit
maybe after the collapse we will have a generation who understands why it happened and establish institutions and protocols that end the supremacy of the least fit to rule, and reduce the overall need for central direction due to a greater self-reliance and distrust of centralization