I miss when republics declined because of lead pipes or something. instead my culture got digital access to the entirety of human knowledge and went immediately insane
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
It took some 30 years come on
“Knowledge of all humanity, am I the fairest of them all?”
“Not really. Kinda trifling really. Do you want to know how your parents got that money to send you to school?”
Like this?
To be fair, Rome fell from an entrenched wealthy class that refused to do things good for their people too.
wow
To be fair we also still have quite a few lead pipes
I often imagine an extraterrestrial sociology professor chatting with their grad student on an expedition and saying, "once they reach the information age of scientific development, every society learns that capitalism is unsustainable and shifts towards some other economic system."
We didn't even get a single Freakazoid...
Uh...
I mean, microplastics will probably be the new lead if we survive this. Maybe it was the thing leaching into their brains.
I don't think it is the knowledge that's the problem. It is the architecture we use to access all of the knowledge. This project should have been run by governments, not corporations, in the first place.
We put lead in fuel for 35 years and now those people control the country
lead killed another republic
basically the same thing in effect though
Can you just imagine if King Louis XIV could post? He'd be shaming people for going to the bathroom and bragging about mirrors.
