• balderdash@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    What if we’re in a “fall of the Roman empire” type scenario? Shit does not feel like business as usual.

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      6 hours ago

      Agreed. I would say yeah we likely are at one of those historical inflection points. But I think what we do in the interstitial period matters a lot. It’s now apparent that these systems that we were told were immovable can be dismantled rather quickly.

      The hinge point we sit on is whether or not we allow the existing ruling class to consolidate power and create the new world or if working class people take back the power that belongs to them. I think the doomer attitude favors the prior.