Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:01:12 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> <199392d0-9628-8177-2f3b-35b23a721dd4@example.net> <086607f1-2283-f7fb-ddf9-ac4766b06530@example.net> <7e4e6187-b4a4-9606-74f5-5e07ce01f08a@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:01:12 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cd9f8fdb28045ee05676ae99ea387d4f"; logging-data="2770412"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+LqMRbnF4CVu2PMxRAB3qIJrd7MiV1qDY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:nDwqw6S84Gh5YXOFtj269+rUTx4= In-Reply-To: <7e4e6187-b4a4-9606-74f5-5e07ce01f08a@example.net> Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2626 On 30/10/2024 20:39, D wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 30/10/2024 17:33, D wrote: >>> >> And it collapses into autonomous fragments. >>> >>> What I think will happen in the near term is that socialism will >>> temporarily destroy a lot of value in the world, in line with what >>> Joseph says. This is proven, and a fact, and should not surprise anyone. >>> >>> But as we've done in the past, we learn the lessons, start again. End >>> of civilization? Hardly. A bump in the road, definitely. >> >> Well end of THIS civilisation, then. >> Tainter didn't say that all civilisations end simultaneously. >> >> We will descend into near barbarism under Islam, or the chinese will >> wander in. > > I agree to disagree. Hopefully we will never know the answer in case he > is right, and hopefully we will, if I am! =) I won't be around to see it. -- No Apple devices were knowingly used in the preparation of this post.