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>>19771755
Don’t fall for the lure of nihilism.
You MUST care, there is simply no other way to live.

Bliss = energy
Suffering = entropy

Rome could have last far longer had it remained a republic.
Empires are doomed to collapse sooner or later because they generate more entropy than energy.
The Roman Empire was born out of caesars ruling them like tyrants, establishing an oligarchy as set by the example of Julius Caesar.
Oligarchies create more suffering than bliss, they create more entropy than energy.
In order to offset their internal entropy they have to expand to inject more energy into the system. But what happens is this:
>the empire encounters another force that impedes its expansion and is destroyed by it. If it doesn’t and emerges victorious:
>it overextends and cannot expand further
The empire’s energy demands constantly have to keep up with its entropy and if it cannot expand the entropy eventually outpaces the energy produced and it eventually collapses.
We can see parallels with America today.
Capitalism requires perpetual growth to offset its entropy, but America has reached the point where it can no longer expand, there is simply no more land and resources to exploit without upsetting the global economic system as it has been set up post-WWII.
Since viable space exploration isn’t possible either for the foreseeable future the ouroboros continues to eat itself, but his time the tail has stopped regenerating.
I do not mourn the fall of the Roman Empire since by its end it had become wicked, oligarchic, sinful and corrupt, and I will not mourn the fall of the American Empire either for the same reasons.
This is the fate of all civilizations, Oswald Spengler’s analysis while accurate and insightful failed to take into account the spiritual side of civilizations.
A civilization that does not use edenic systems, which are systems that produce more energy than entropy, while eventually collapse.
Edenic systems by their nature are geared for long-term stability, they can last thousands of years but only one, Heaven, will truly last forever, since it produces only bliss and hence reverses entropy.
I do not despair because I am optimistic about mankind finding one or more of the edenic systems. But for the time being the cycle of death and rebirth must continue, the Phoenix must rise from the ashes of its previous incarnation until true longevity is reached.
t. knower

>>19056280
Humans are creatures that guide their actions based on past experience.
They are really, really bad at predicting the future, their foresight is practically non-existent.
This is why they never plan for a black swan event, they think “it worked in the past so it’ll keep working”.
There will be a paradigm shift this century that will radically alter human society and the way we look at things.
I cannot tell you what it is and 99% of people are too connected to the zeitgeist to tell you either.
Only a few bright minds are ever head of their times and can envision the future or new realities.
The most I can say is that unlike the previous two centuries, which were shaped by economic, political, scientific and technological paradigm shifts, this one is likely to be religious in nature.