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Seeing civilizational collapse or decline as far fetched is a direct result of your privileged position in the world.

• jl6 3y ago
  It’s more a result of being old enough to have seen countless histrionic doomsday predictions not come true.
  • jcpst 3y ago
    It’s not too far-fetched, it’s happened before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse