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Old April 1st 18, 06:52 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:17:34 UTC+2, Chris L Peterson wrote:

Whether or not there will be a rapid collapse remains to be seen. A
decline in a third world country may not be a good model for a decline
in a developed one.


There is usually a trigger event which causes a sudden major collapse.
It just has to hit one of the countless fault lines in a hideously unequal society.

The continuing appeal of superheroes is a clear indicator of a severe lack of social justice.
Religion is basically an appeal to a higher authority for social justice where absolutely none exists.

The huge and growing disparity in wealth is set up like a hurdle to trip the US nation.
Now add increasing disparity, universal robotics and AI to this tottering skittle in a maelstrom of change.
It is not the insane sociopathy of commercial health care which threatens most.
But the massive overburden of lawyers which may crush the last vein of creative human resources into worthlessness.

Human society is constantly exposed to the get-rich-quick syndrome.
Where only luck or criminality are seen as the only possible way upwards for most.
The irony is that the conspiracy theorists are half right.
They just don't know which half or whom is their very real devil.

Is Trumpet really "The Joker??" Or a cold and brutal, criminal mastermind?
Perhaps, more importantly, what can possibly follow his reign of deeply damaging chaos?
When the appeal to vote for the next "highest authority" has patently and repeatedly failed to produce social justice and freedom from poverty.. what then?