Historian A J Toynbee observed that ALL civilisations are either destroyed by a rival or ultimately commit suicide, which is what our own civilisation is currently doing.
Excuse me going on about this, but it is rather important, esp. in view of academic denial.
Excuse me going on about this, but it is rather important, esp. in view of academic denial.
Academic authority is profoundly important, because presumed to be authoritative, as often it is, as in the case of #ClimateChange. But while some academic disciplines are on the ball, others are not, esp. those charged with understanding society, the state & civilisation.
That Western civilisation is committing suicide has been clear to me, & not a few others, ever since its growth-dependent, grossly materialistic, mercenary, rapacious, driven, & thus inherently unsustainable, economy was put into super-global & turbo mode in the 1980s.
If social scientists recognised that we are doing what all prior civilisations had done, they could, following my lead, develop an understanding of why this is & come up with counter measures, but at the moment they are behaving as the Catholic church did towards Galileo.
Except that instead of charging me with heresy, not being an academic myself, they just ignore me with the academic arrogance that comes naturally to them.
https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1149587575423680517?s=20
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