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Having anxiety about the future of civilization
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<blockquote data-quote="ViaCrucis" data-source="post: 73777010" data-attributes="member: 293637"><p>It can be easy to think "things are worse now than ever before", but history is a long story of the rise and fall of civilizations, of societies, and the thing is that human beings continually come through to the other side--humanity continues.</p><p></p><p>Even should some of our worst fears materialize, say nuclear war, it doesn't mean the end of history. There is a rather mysterious thing that happened about three thousand years ago known as the Bronze Age Collapse, virtually every major Bronze age power in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East suffered catastrophic loss, powerful empires collapsed entirely. It ushered in the period of the Greek Dark Ages for example, the fall of the Minoans, the Hittites. One of the few survivors was Egypt, who barely got by and would never rise to be what they once had been. We don't actually know what caused the Bronze Age Collapse, geological evidence shows increased volcanic activity, such as what had happened on the Isle of Thera, Egyptian sources speak of "sea peoples" invading and attacking. The biblical Philistines are thought by many to be one of these "sea peoples" who ended up conquering and colonizing territory on the coastal Levant. But the thing is that the Collapse brought a dark age, and so written sources and accounts are incredibly sparse. But this wasn't the end, out of the Collapse arose the classical Greek age with the works of Homer, and the birth of Greek philosophy; other kingdoms and empires came in to fill the void left by earlier ones. We see the rise of the Neo-Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Medes, and Persians, the Macedonians under Alexander, the Greek city states and the birth of democracy, Greek colonies and the rise of Rome, the expansion of the Phoenicians to North Africa, and so Carthage. And yes, these came, went, fell, but even with the fall of Rome in the West, came the Franks and so the precursors of the European nations--France, Germany, Britain, Spain, the Italy.</p><p></p><p>Civilization continues even when great societies fall. What's important right now is, to what degree we are able, how should we now live to help shape our society and what sort of world do we want for our children.</p><p></p><p>-CryptoLutheran</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ViaCrucis, post: 73777010, member: 293637"] It can be easy to think "things are worse now than ever before", but history is a long story of the rise and fall of civilizations, of societies, and the thing is that human beings continually come through to the other side--humanity continues. Even should some of our worst fears materialize, say nuclear war, it doesn't mean the end of history. There is a rather mysterious thing that happened about three thousand years ago known as the Bronze Age Collapse, virtually every major Bronze age power in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East suffered catastrophic loss, powerful empires collapsed entirely. It ushered in the period of the Greek Dark Ages for example, the fall of the Minoans, the Hittites. One of the few survivors was Egypt, who barely got by and would never rise to be what they once had been. We don't actually know what caused the Bronze Age Collapse, geological evidence shows increased volcanic activity, such as what had happened on the Isle of Thera, Egyptian sources speak of "sea peoples" invading and attacking. The biblical Philistines are thought by many to be one of these "sea peoples" who ended up conquering and colonizing territory on the coastal Levant. But the thing is that the Collapse brought a dark age, and so written sources and accounts are incredibly sparse. But this wasn't the end, out of the Collapse arose the classical Greek age with the works of Homer, and the birth of Greek philosophy; other kingdoms and empires came in to fill the void left by earlier ones. We see the rise of the Neo-Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Medes, and Persians, the Macedonians under Alexander, the Greek city states and the birth of democracy, Greek colonies and the rise of Rome, the expansion of the Phoenicians to North Africa, and so Carthage. And yes, these came, went, fell, but even with the fall of Rome in the West, came the Franks and so the precursors of the European nations--France, Germany, Britain, Spain, the Italy. Civilization continues even when great societies fall. What's important right now is, to what degree we are able, how should we now live to help shape our society and what sort of world do we want for our children. -CryptoLutheran [/QUOTE]
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