Dr. A

No. The way society is setup is the problem. It’s not that the government can’t tax to pay for public services. The U.S. can tax people it’s just it needs to cut government size in half. The U.S. needs to stop giving money to build egypts army or gender studies in Afghanistan whatever. Look at nato. What empire ever provided protection to subjects and then not tax those subjects? That’s a HUGE problem. The point is the U.S. uses the army to force countries to use dollars so the government borrows and prints more and offshored the inflation. It’s why when Lybia and iraq wanted to sell oil in gold the Us overthrew them! The U.S. could FIX things. The U.S. just needs to tell europe okay we’ll charge you cost plus twenty percent for providing military protections like normal profit seeking mercenaries would do. The issue is the public services the Us is providing is to the world but then trying to tax only Americans haha it’s hilarious. It’s like not patriotic to give free college to Americans but it’s patriotic to give free college basically to Europe. That’s how I think about it. I watched congress on Forbes the other night. NATO knew group wanted 40 million and europe would put up a billion and some republicans were like well we need europe to start paying the 2% for nato before we do anything. Republicans are corrupt cause like when bush was in office they should have forced europe to pay their 2% or at least cost. It’s not about accountability and public services. It’s about power. Look at the nord stream pipeline. Id say good luck to JFKs nephew that’s running for office but if he’s sincere it’s like why are you running? They killed your uncle they can take you out at anytime haha.

​@koltoncrane3099 you have all the answers. What's it like?

​@@koltoncrane3099the way you "think" about it is your problem. Have you considered therapy?

someone is thinking straight !! where do I send you a medal ?? It's so rare !! They are building/fabricating a collapse with extreme dependence on unreliable machinery ... a few weeks ago a friend in Costa Rica explained to me that her car with chip was weeks in the shop because no programming machine available to reprogram her car ... huge queue ... 2 of these machines in the entire country ... small business owner !! When there should be a very careful thought about where these chips are produced and not just Taiwan ... and a mix between old and new technology IS REALLY THE PRECISE VISION NEEDED ... ELECTRIC CARS WILL SOON BE FORCED IN 7 STATES IN THE USA ... INSTEAD OF MIXING THE PARK ... with half the cars electric and well distributed ... if African kids do not harvest the lithium and if the batteries do not poison the waters ... for later accusations when people do not choose anything but are steered by social changers with ZERO LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY ... can people make coffee without microchips ?? I do !! A mix of energies is OK but not brash radical unreliable changes and without destroying landscape while pretending to be "green" ... A BALANCE !! A WORD THAT IS EMPTY TODAY in a era of deforming reformers !!

​@@sandrahmonthieuxpelage8915the earth is flat

Merci 🙂 mais la classe c'est surtout lui ! Moi je n'ai fait que lire son bouquin (qui explique quand même beaucoup beaucoup de choses) et lui écrire un mail.

U are right!

How so?

‘This may seem reductionist’ No shit lol vague af metaphor which no explanation on which parts of the society relate to parts of the bridge and what maintenance involves

@@Silks- Literate people discuss rather than blow snot. You aren't one Plonk.

​​@@deadman746Arguably you aren't much of one either if you're leaning on Vonnegut to make your point for you. Literacy is hardly synonymous with wisdom, and I see you made that distinction for us, yourself, in your retort. There is of course a maintenance cost to civilization that is most poignantly made by Howard T Odum's Maximum Power principle, but this only deals in games Nash would say have with no imperfect information. Since I can lie, and you can lie, and I know that you might lie, and that I'm telling you I might lie, the complexity of the game and the induction of manipulation of cognitive bias techniques alla Edward Bernays are induced and now your civilization is subject to my willingness to bend the game to my advantage, up to, and including, destroying it for my own self interest, at your expense. Civilizations collapse when the productive members of society decide the cost exceeds the benefit of maintaining it, and that is generally about the time that a majority lack the skills, but expect the production, of the goods and services to which they've become accustomed to enjoying. Since the portion of the population even aware of declining EROEI is a rounding error in even six nines of purity, one can safely conclude the globally connected civilization is on the verge of collapse with individual nations, corporations, and individuals trying not to slip lower than others on the way down. You can of course truncate your "civilization" down to your immediate community, friends, family or self, and become self sufficient, but let's be honest, Vonnegut? You're not gonna make it.

@@skeetorkiftwon More _ad hominem._ Perhaps this means something. It isn't worth the effort distinguishing between leaning on and quipping. Plonk.

@@deadman746 Is the "plonk" closer an OCD problem, or just the best insult you can manage as a puerile quim? I did, however, consider the reason for your reduction of the matter in relation to your use of Vonnegut: Your understanding of most any topic is truncated at the young adult reading level. Which is likely why both the references to Odum and Nash wash right over your wooden head. Anyway, I'll let you get back to your Harry Potter novels.

they already have I'm afraid, Universities were formed on the premise of information dissemination but that is no longer needed. These types of institutions will soon become a thing of the past.

Hmmm..., I understand what you said and why you sait it, however the info that he use about others societies collapse is not wrong (is interesting how he said that "an advise before the political collapse is the depopulation", because this is what's happening in almost all over the world). No matter if communication at the speed of light is here, people always are people, the behaviour of people don't change and there's a bunch of data about what people do when a collapse happens, which was expose a little bit on the video. As you said, there is no precedent about our current society with communication to the speed of light so yeah, would be interesting to see an expert like this with other expert about AI and hear what they want to talk about society collapse. But do that maybe would be illegal here because the UKposts politics because could cause some population panic or something like that, so...

Sorry, this doesn't make sense. Even if information moves at the speed of light, it doesn't mean that people can take all of it up. You can go to any library that you want to and pick up a book about price controls why they have not worked for the last several thousand years. If you believe in The Lindy effect, they will not work for an equal number of thousands of years. And yet and still, you can find huge cities such as New York that still have rent controls, and so you can conclude that it doesn't matter how fast the information is traveling if it just does not get through.

I'm sorry but I respectively disagree - authorship disappears at the speed of light as does any sense of POV perspective - in fact, the concept of the individual is quickly coming to an end, unfortunately. We are retribalizing. @@Lpm100

Thank you 🙂 my English has unfortunately declined since 2008 when I left London, but I am still able to read and understand The Collapse of Complex Societies, so I still meet minimum vital requirements 🙂.

Yeah that sounded a bit sus to me

Bonjour et merci pour votre intérêt. Malheureusement non, le temps me manque. Existerait il un bon générateur automatique de sous-titres ?

​@@plansb5415 un mini résumé écrit est-il possible ? Sur Facebook ou LinkedIn ?

@jaysphilosophy1951 Not true. He has long pointed out the problems of transitioning to “sustainable “ energy sources and the need for fossil fuels as part of an overall strategy.

Oh please...

@@ms-jl6dl Ivan III the reigning Monarch married the sister of Emperor Constantine and had a family, those children continued the official Roman bloodline. You would have to be obtuse not to understand that Rome stands in continuity from antiquity to modernity in the location of Moscow.

​@@augustusomega4708Byzantine royals were married more or less to all corners of the known world, as were those of other Roman "successor" states. We probably all have some amount of royal Byzantine, Frankish, Mongol etc. blood in our veins. Monarchies and dynasties don't mean much to the cultures they come to rule, even less their particular bloodline, they come and go, rise and fall. And if you take something as obviously arbitrary as Renaissance architecture as an indicator... Well, have you heard about a region called Italy? I think they also had something to do with the Romans, not quite sure though...

@@domsjuk Very minimalist effort there. I am not saying Moscow were Roman founders, I am enlightening those that dont know that ROME STANDS INTO ETERNITY and I personally think President Putin looks like a Caesar. Put a reef on his head and baam! Julius. It is the continuity of the Roman fire I speak of, it died in Italia, it died in Constantinople. It s flame roars in Moscow.

Look at this file photo of General Armageddon. Tell me that face is not a modern day Roman General. Look at the royal blue flag behind him, the gold reef state emblem...I can picture that type of flag in the main caravan among the marching Legions to Germanium en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sergey_Surovikin_(2021_photomontage).jpg

They tried eugenics

@@bingflosby They didn't try very hard.

@@apollothirteen9236 they are still doing it and you are also part of the group they are trying to get rid of so calm down

You'd be trying to select humanity according to the demands and metrics of the entirely contingent and arbitrary set of factors of 21st century capitalism. Molding something very inelastic (human gene pool) to fit something very elastic and contingent (current mass society capitalism) is a genuinely stupid idea.

@@domsjuk It's not only a smart solution, it's necessary for man's future survival. Rich people are on the top of the genetic gene pool. We need them breeding like rabbits, not the stupid people.