In the past, the time equation worked for the truth precisely because there was someone, a country, "out there" to speak it plainly. While in the case of the FSU, the 'time' was about 80 years - 8 decades of being juxtaposed against someone else (US) speaking the truth. It did, in the end, end.
What really worries me is there is now NO collective sovereign entity that speaks the truth as it once was. This entire world has been corrupted to liberality.
What's left? Well, things could get so bad - to the point of completely breaking down: susceptible to the next populist demon's dictatorship, anarchy, or scattered tribes of varying ideologies, etc.
What I'm afraid of is actually getting to the point of a complete "do-over" of human development; and that could be centuries.
What’s left? Well, things could get so bad - to the point of completely breaking down: susceptible to the next populist demon’s dictatorship, anarchy, or scattered tribes of varying ideologies, etc.
Well put. The scattered tribes option is probably the best we can hope for.
The beacon may go out. What hope, then, here or around the world?
If nothing else, we will serve as an example of a rear-guard action, defense against all odds, never quitting.
This sort of "population inversion" (forgive use of physics concept) usually creates a financial opportunity for someone smart enough to see it.
I sure wish I was smart enough to be that someone.
The do-over is the book of Revelation, the good news is that it will be done-over in our lifetime, it won't take centurys.