BarnacleBob
05-01-2003, 11:18 AM
"The Collapse of Complex Societies" Parts I & II
http://abuss.narod.ru/Biblio/Tainter1-2.htm
Employing the excellent info above certainly appears to indicate our Society is in some form of a slow motion advanced collapse. Let's count just a few segments of the collapse:
1) Morals, scruples and ethics collapse
2) Monetary and economic collapse
3) Legal/law system collapse
4) Education collapse
5) Religious collapse
6) Collapse of property ownership rights
7) Collapse of the individual natural rights of man
8) Environmental collapse
9) Collapse of the kinship/family unit and community values
10) Collapse of independent national sovereignty
There are many more signs not listed.
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.---Arnold J. Toynbee, 'The Study of History'
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Survivalist: One who has personal or group survival as a primary goal in the face of difficulty, opposition, and especially the threat of natural catastrophe, nuclear war, or societal collapse.
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http://abuss.narod.ru/Biblio/Tainter1-2.htm
Employing the excellent info above certainly appears to indicate our Society is in some form of a slow motion advanced collapse. Let's count just a few segments of the collapse:
1) Morals, scruples and ethics collapse
2) Monetary and economic collapse
3) Legal/law system collapse
4) Education collapse
5) Religious collapse
6) Collapse of property ownership rights
7) Collapse of the individual natural rights of man
8) Environmental collapse
9) Collapse of the kinship/family unit and community values
10) Collapse of independent national sovereignty
There are many more signs not listed.
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.---Arnold J. Toynbee, 'The Study of History'
Information for Survivalists
http://www.survivalist.info/
Survivalist: One who has personal or group survival as a primary goal in the face of difficulty, opposition, and especially the threat of natural catastrophe, nuclear war, or societal collapse.
NewsJunkie.info
http://www.newsjunkie.info/