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“Fragile, impermanent things”: #JosephTainter on what makes #civilizations fall
" #Collapse occurs, he argues, when the costs of #complexity are greater than its returns to society. Complex societies are problem-solving organizations, and when the costs of coping with crises are too great, they fail."
#civilisation #tippingPoints #civilization #climatecrisis #DoomsdayClock
- well, I would put it in my opinion that probably much more civilizations are based on the #genocide of other civilizations - only some of the #civilizations can carry out the genocide more effectively... (for example, the tribes of the first people in North #America also sometimes carried out intertribal genocide, but there it was to some extent a kind of "personal heroism" or almost "sport")
"It’s wrong to blame the #Gaza genocide on #Jews. It isn’t wrong because #antisemitism is a major danger in our society (it’s not), nor because there’s a risk that people will start loading Jews onto trains again (there isn’t), nor because Jewish Israelis and their supporters are blameless (they obviously are not).
It’s wrong to blame this whole thing on Jews because it lets the rest of us off the hook.
This is our genocide. This is our crime. To blame it all on the Jews is to say that our society is perfectly fine and healthy and that none of this would be happening if not for the Machiavellian manipulations of a small #Abrahamic #religion. It’s to deny the reality that the middle east is on fire right now because of everything this perverse civilization is and always has been.
It is not a coincidence that the tendency to blame all society’s ills on the Jews is much more prevalent on the far right than anywhere else. #Rightists are ideologically inhibited from seeing western civilization as a uniquely pernicious blight on this world, and from seeing #capitalism and imperialism as the driving force behind the #injustices and abuses it inflicts. If you have an ideological need to view all those things as fine and good, then you need to come up with some other explanation for why everything is shitty and evil. So they buy into this infantile narrative that western civilization would be just peachy if it weren’t for those darn Jews."
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/all-of-western-civilization-owns
To find advanced #civilizations, you don’t need to go hunting for #megastructures or hypothetical #space probes.
You could find civilizations by looking for a key element: #hydrogen. #Deuterium holds a whole lot of promise for nuclear fusion.
To harvest deuterium, an alien civilization might draw it from its oceans. This would cause a visible imbalance in the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio, potentially visible with next-generation telescopes.
#astrobiology
https://www.astronomy.com/science/could-deuterium-be-the-key-to-finding-aliens/
#Theoretical #physicist Sabine #Hossenfelder: "We’ve Been Searching For #Aliens All Wrong, #Researchers Say (and they have a point)"
❛❛ #Civilizations need #energy to expand. You’ve probably heard of the #Kardashev scale, which classifies civilizations based on their ability to generate and use energy (if you’re interested, #humans are barely on the scale). A new paper has shaken up that scale ❜❜ (with ad 7 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQm6JC4ruEk 2024 Nov 27 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
EPISODE 19 
With readings in Mongolian, Arabic & Chinese, and with the sounds of Mongolian folk music, find out how the world's largest land empire rose and fell, and left the world we know behind.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5OJEmyNhSbZr1Qj41o5Kzm
Yellowmead stone circle near Sheepstor in Devon, England is a concentric Bronze Age stone circle consisting of four stone rings set into each other. The largest is 20 meters wide and the smallest 6 meters. It is located on Yellowmead Down.
The circles once surrounded a burial mound, although this is now barely visible. To the south-west some possible rows of stones branch off, crossed by a post-medieval leat that once served a nearby tin works.
The site was excavated and restored by Rev. H Breton in 1921. In 2008, geophysical surveys and a small excavation were carried out to determine if the 1921 restoration had been done accurately (it was) and to find out if they were buried additional elements in the peat. Fallen stones were found in line with some of the stone rows, suggesting that further features may lie downstream below the slope.
#archeology #archeologist #civilizations
#archeologicalsite #castle #ancient
#history #historyfacts #historynerd #historybuff
Top 7 #Ancient #Civilizations
1. Egypt : formed around 3100 BCE.
2. India : formed around 1500 BCE (Indus Valley Civilization and subsequent Vedic period)
3. China : formed around 2070 BCE (Xia Dynasty).
4. Iran : formed around 550 BCE (Achaemenid Empire)
5. Greece : formed around 800 BCE (Archaic Greece)
6. Japan : formed around 660 BCE (Traditional date for the founding by Emperor Jimmu)
7. Ethiopia : formed around 980 BCE (Kingdom of D’mt)
https://zeenews.india.com/photos/world/india-is-not-the-oldest-country-in-the-world-check-top-7-ancient-civilizations-2773593/6-japan-2773599
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline by Paul Cooper, 2024
Fall of #Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they collapsed.
Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztec empires of the Americas; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui.
Didn’t ancient #civilizations just mainly use natural landmarks as borders?
An AI Simulated Interactions Between Different Kinds of Advanced Civilizations
https://www.universetoday.com/165933/an-ai-simulated-interactions-between-different-kinds-of-advanced-civilizations/ #AI #simulation #advanced #civilizations #interactions #CosmoAgent #LLM #Zerg #Trisolaran #Borg #Human
"Ruin, which we may also call “#collapse,” is a feature of our world. We experience it with our health, our job, our family, our investments. We know that when ruin comes, it is unpredictable, rapid, destructive, and spectacular. And it seems to be impossible to stop until everything that can be destroyed is destroyed. The same is true of #civilizations" 
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/why-complex-systems-collapse-faster
Why Don't We See #Robotic #Civilizations Rapidly Expanding Across the #Universe?
Civilizations are Probably Spreading Quickly Through the Universe
In a recent study, a team from the University of the Philippines Los Banos looked beyond traditional Percolation Theory to consider how civilizations might grow in three different types of Universes (static, dark energy-dominated, and matter-dominated). Their results indicate that, depending on the framework, intelligent life has a finite amount of time to populate the Universe and is likely to do so exponentially.
https://www.universetoday.com/163814/civilizations-are-probably-spreading-quickly-through-the-universe/ #civilizations #universes #spread
Yes, #UN, immediately implemented and ongoing #radical Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions are the only way for #humans and our #civilizations to survive, and hopefully thrive.
Check out this fashion project by creators from Panamá, inspired by Laniakea: https://vistelacalle.com/revistelacalle12-desde-panama-la-produccion-de-moda-supercumulo-laniakea/
These fascinating creations explore the representations of alien civilizations in ancient cultures.
Full credits in link.
