Two Types of Civilizations If you look back over the long history of human civilizations you’ll find two basic types of civilizations that have popped up over time. The first and most common type the most people think about is the agriculturally based civilizations. These had these cities and these empires that were built […]
Divide And Conquer
Next Door Neighbor I have a very interesting neighbor. He is a retired Army Col. He is very intelligent, he’s very kind and he’s very very good at talking to people at their level. If there is ever any kind of economic collapse or zombie apocalypse or alien invasion I definitely want to be […]
Retreat To The Power Within
Dive Bar There’s this bar nearby my house. A dive bar, kind of a community dive bar. I go there because not because I drink but because it’s a very relaxing place to hang out and talk about things that only are allowed to be talked about inside of your local community dive bar. […]
Corrupt Kings and Noble Mythology
Boy Scouts When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts and we had this very old very wise very kind of noble retired scoutmaster. He was never a an actual scoutmaster when I was there by the time I had started when I had joined he had already become retired. He always […]
Modern Sorcery
Get Out Of The House As soon as I graduated from college I had to find a job as soon as I could. When I was in high school my dad and I had all kinds of conflicts. When I went away to college I was living by myself for four years. When I finished […]
Everything Is Hallucination
Our Memory Sucks It’s a very demonstrable fact that human memory is very very weak. We’ve all had experiences where somebody told us their name and we later forgot it even thought we wanted to remember it. We all have experiences being told what to study for a particular test in school. We studied but […]
Beehive Punch
Not A Good Idea If you were out hiking you saw gigantic beehive it wouldn’t be a good idea to punch the beehive because all of the bees would swarm out and sting you to death. If you were hiking through the forest by yourself when you suddenly found yourself in wolf territory and […]
Unsustainability
All Modern Societies Are Unsustainable There are a couple of different ways to view an anthill. You can look at it as one singular organism unto itself or you could look at it as a collection of individual organisms onto themselves, all genetically programmed to support the meta-organism. You can look at a beehive […]
Equilibrium Paradox
How Much Do You Need? Most of us have a curious belief about some big thing that we want. This can either be a thing, a certain amount of money, or even a long range goal. The belief that we hold about this is that once we get that “thing,” whatever it happens to be, […]
Collapse
Success Rate Of Zero Humans have gone through two types of societal organization. One has been stable, the other has not. In this post, we will endeavor to explain precisely why this second type of society always ends in collapse. It is far beyond the scope to come up with any large scale remedies to […]
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