“How many children can be irreversibly neutered before you crash the population? Why would we want to even risk that? How deranged does our very language have to get, before we lose the ability to communicate? How many preposterous lies do we have to pretend to believe, before we have to find some way to live without truth?”
(Lee Duigon – News With Views) We have, for all practical purposes, history’s first global civilization. There’s nowhere you can go where it can’t reach out and bite you.
Once upon a time it was different. When the whole Bronze Age collapsed in the 12th century B.C., who in North or South America even noticed? The Indus Valley civilization went extinct without leaving the smallest hint of a cause.
Civilizations come and go. But ours is the whole world’s. If it goes belly-up, everybody goes.