Gregory's ServerWe'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective. Kurt Vonnegut, American writer and novelist (1922 2007)
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@tofugolem @mrbadger42 I don't know, I think there's something unique to a society as a whole embracing it. the media is one thing, but Americans in general know what's going on. in the sense that they know very few people have almost everything and control the state and everyone else is getting screwed. but did their analogues throughout history go "oh, well it just has to be that way. it would be too burdensome to ask for seconds". I'm genuinely asking, I don't know a whole lot of history.  @benda @mrbadger42 I'm sure some history buff will set me straight about that, but the former seems to happen more than you would think. @tofugolem @mrbadger42 it certainly seems so in more recent history western history. I wonder about classical euro and the rest of the world's empires. either way, I think Kurt's quote is still alright in that, whether or not the first, is certainly what we're seeing here. @benda @mrbadger42 @mrbadger42 this goes hand-in-hand with another Vonnegut quote that the epitaph of our planet will be “they could have saved it but they were too cheap and lazy”  @mrbadger42 @lakelady Vonnegut, who worked as a tech writer and a PR writer at GE during the time it was dumping PCBs into the Hudson up by Schenectady |
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There's nothing unique about us.
Plenty of other civilizations in history self-destructed because some class of wealthy people couldn't stop stuffing their pockets with blood money.