Frankly, I think much of the trouble began when people (including yours truly back in her university days) started using "social construct" as a pejorative. Civilization is not a bad thing, no matter what the current counter-evolutionary trends may imply.
There have been many experiments using everything monkeys to mice including humans. Notably the Stanford Prison Experiment. Without exception, significant envirinmental changes of all types inevitably led to a situation known as FUBAR.
I'm not an expert in Greek history, but if I recall correctly, preceeding the fall of that empire it experienced many of the same incongruous sexual and cultural upheavals we are currently experiencing.
I think that was the Romans, Greeks had these things called city states before Alexander came along. And then it became Rome. Or something. I'm sure a classics scholar will be along soon to convince me that Sparta did exist and wasn't just a figment of Plato's overactive imagination.
Couldn't agree more Rudolf. I read about that mouse utopia somewhere a while back. Basically, what it comes down to, is that, when we have too much time on our hands, we fuck with ourselves too much. But you put it so much more eloquently.
I think that we've got the go forth and multiply bit down cold... 3 billion in 1960 or so, 6 billion by 2000, 7.9 billion today - so the growth rate is below 2% now - and below that even for the global North. The global South is another matter entirely... At current rates of consumption - with 7.9 billion people, I think it's a fair bet that we'll be done with fossil fuels and mechanized agriculture by about 2050 or so. Of course, if the population continues to rise, then that 2050 date may wind up being closer to 2040 - at which point we hit a brick wall... That's something to think about if you're considering having children, 18 years from now, they're going to be in one hell of a fix. And climate will be the least of their worries.
There's over a billion cars on the planet with an average 2000 kg footprint (roughly). Huge amounts of resources allocated to that form of 'transport'. I'd suggest we start there.
Interesting. I had never heard of the Mouse Utopia experiment before.
It ties in with the Hopf quote: "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
While searching for the exact quote, one of the first things that popped up was substack post calling this quote...wait for it...fascistic!
German may have its own strengths regarding creation of new words from existing ones (e.g., by prefixing: holen -> abholen, aufholen, erholen, einholen, ausholen, ...) but English is fascinating because of its idioms and synonyms.
Mouse utopia was a bullshit experiment.
They later ran the experiment with basic activities, not just food and sex.
The mice didn't turn out like the original psychopathic bullshit.
It's regularly used by elites to promote their population control and you fell for it too.
Frankly, I think much of the trouble began when people (including yours truly back in her university days) started using "social construct" as a pejorative. Civilization is not a bad thing, no matter what the current counter-evolutionary trends may imply.
There have been many experiments using everything monkeys to mice including humans. Notably the Stanford Prison Experiment. Without exception, significant envirinmental changes of all types inevitably led to a situation known as FUBAR.
I'm not an expert in Greek history, but if I recall correctly, preceeding the fall of that empire it experienced many of the same incongruous sexual and cultural upheavals we are currently experiencing.
I think that was the Romans, Greeks had these things called city states before Alexander came along. And then it became Rome. Or something. I'm sure a classics scholar will be along soon to convince me that Sparta did exist and wasn't just a figment of Plato's overactive imagination.
Couldn't agree more Rudolf. I read about that mouse utopia somewhere a while back. Basically, what it comes down to, is that, when we have too much time on our hands, we fuck with ourselves too much. But you put it so much more eloquently.
I think that we've got the go forth and multiply bit down cold... 3 billion in 1960 or so, 6 billion by 2000, 7.9 billion today - so the growth rate is below 2% now - and below that even for the global North. The global South is another matter entirely... At current rates of consumption - with 7.9 billion people, I think it's a fair bet that we'll be done with fossil fuels and mechanized agriculture by about 2050 or so. Of course, if the population continues to rise, then that 2050 date may wind up being closer to 2040 - at which point we hit a brick wall... That's something to think about if you're considering having children, 18 years from now, they're going to be in one hell of a fix. And climate will be the least of their worries.
There's over a billion cars on the planet with an average 2000 kg footprint (roughly). Huge amounts of resources allocated to that form of 'transport'. I'd suggest we start there.
Interesting. I had never heard of the Mouse Utopia experiment before.
It ties in with the Hopf quote: "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
While searching for the exact quote, one of the first things that popped up was substack post calling this quote...wait for it...fascistic!
Any derivative of fascism is the only word they know. However, they don't seem to know fascism when it jumps up and bites them on the butt.
Well, taking time to read all this before doing the deed certainly improved my duration!
Except of course... she fell asleep while I digested the article. (I'm the more cerebral of us.)
And then there's that "she's not talking to me anyway...." thing.
so, anyhoo.... Thank you for letting me know what I'm missing out on.
A fascinating read.
German may have its own strengths regarding creation of new words from existing ones (e.g., by prefixing: holen -> abholen, aufholen, erholen, einholen, ausholen, ...) but English is fascinating because of its idioms and synonyms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwg8a6sDxKc