In the 9th century, the Song dynasty in China lost the northern half of the country because instead of dealing with the invaders to the north, they sat in the capitol writing poetry about how great it would be to win. In the same era, the Indian subcontinent was being invaded by the Muslims and instead of doing anything productive, they built nicer temples so the Gods would grant them victory and they ultimately ended up losing most of the subcontinent.
At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of what's real. Let one of many different bad things happen, you're dead. Reality doesn't care about ideology if the ideology inevitably leads to ruin. It'll just let you die. The giant stone heads on easter island is all that's left. The Minoans left virtually no trace of their existence despite once being a regional superpower.
We're ironically a deeply conservative culture. We already have all the answers. We don't need to change anything, just do more of what our grandparents did but moreso. We don't need to care about what other cultures do, what ideas are out there, because we're the center of the universe.
In that sense, it won't matter what we want the future to look like, because we won't be a part of it. Things will change too much, and we'll be too busy looking backwards to do anything about the future.
At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of what's real. Let one of many different bad things happen, you're dead. Reality doesn't care about ideology if the ideology inevitably leads to ruin. It'll just let you die. The giant stone heads on easter island is all that's left. The Minoans left virtually no trace of their existence despite once being a regional superpower.
We're ironically a deeply conservative culture. We already have all the answers. We don't need to change anything, just do more of what our grandparents did but moreso. We don't need to care about what other cultures do, what ideas are out there, because we're the center of the universe.
In that sense, it won't matter what we want the future to look like, because we won't be a part of it. Things will change too much, and we'll be too busy looking backwards to do anything about the future.
I'm here through alex's portal(this one), and I've also got an actual native account.
No, that should be my actual account on nostr from before the mostr bridge was up and running.