Re: Financial topics
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:40 pm
Postby gerald » Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:14 pm
Hmmm
In Joseph A. Tainter's book "The Collapse of Complex Societies" there is an interesting thread to many societies collapse ( discounting environmental issues, drought, volcanoes, etc ) This thread is the role of the "elites". They being political, military, religious, administrative, etc. If the elites can't justify their costs to society, society rebels, and many times they destroy the elites and society. Even going to the extent of destroying temples and palaces and burying them.
Trust appears to be generally lost, almost globally, and Ebola, if it is as bad as it appears, could be he straw that destroys civilization. During the plague years people were walled up in their homes to protect society from the plague. The church lost power because the church could not protect people from the plague, so what good is the church? When people have the general threat of death hanging over them they will do uncommon things.
interesting times indeed
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End Of The Empire -- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-08/end-empire
One would imagine that the populace of an Empire at its zenith would feel euphoric, confident, secure, fearless: chomping at the bit to go out and do great things not just for themselves but for the Empire.
Instead, we see a populace on anti-depressants, insecure, anxious, burdened by ill health, jaded by 24 hours of everything, every day, distrustful of its corrupt leadership and self-serving institutions, and beneath the rah-rah phony cheer, fearful that the whole rotten contraption might give way before they secure their share of the Imperial swag.
If the top 1/100th of 1% crowding airports with their private jets isn't afraid of impoverished, disenchanted debt-serfs with pitchforks, they should be.
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hmmmm interesting times indeed
Hmmm
In Joseph A. Tainter's book "The Collapse of Complex Societies" there is an interesting thread to many societies collapse ( discounting environmental issues, drought, volcanoes, etc ) This thread is the role of the "elites". They being political, military, religious, administrative, etc. If the elites can't justify their costs to society, society rebels, and many times they destroy the elites and society. Even going to the extent of destroying temples and palaces and burying them.
Trust appears to be generally lost, almost globally, and Ebola, if it is as bad as it appears, could be he straw that destroys civilization. During the plague years people were walled up in their homes to protect society from the plague. The church lost power because the church could not protect people from the plague, so what good is the church? When people have the general threat of death hanging over them they will do uncommon things.
interesting times indeed
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End Of The Empire -- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-08/end-empire
One would imagine that the populace of an Empire at its zenith would feel euphoric, confident, secure, fearless: chomping at the bit to go out and do great things not just for themselves but for the Empire.
Instead, we see a populace on anti-depressants, insecure, anxious, burdened by ill health, jaded by 24 hours of everything, every day, distrustful of its corrupt leadership and self-serving institutions, and beneath the rah-rah phony cheer, fearful that the whole rotten contraption might give way before they secure their share of the Imperial swag.
If the top 1/100th of 1% crowding airports with their private jets isn't afraid of impoverished, disenchanted debt-serfs with pitchforks, they should be.
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hmmmm interesting times indeed