Insight from a FReeper...OneVike - not a comforting read BUT paints the way we’re headed. I can’t dispute what he says even tho’ it’s uncomfortable. He posted on FR a week or so ago and he has a splendid website - it will keep you busy.
https://trfmf.com/2024/08/stolen-again/
I remember a classic line from the God Father. It is implied that it is necessary for humans to get our asses kicked from time to time. We can never be happy and it is our nature to fight, kill, hate, enslave. And when times are good and external threats are gone (RE: the fall of the Soviet Union), we turn our attacks upon ourselves which is happening right now. Seems like we are looking for reasons to be angry and to hate and come up with irrational, illogical, new norms and to attack fellow Americans.
Anyway, it is a cycle... prosperity to destruction and war to reconstruction and prosperity... repeat.
The risk is that when a country is “rebuilding” itself, there is a slim chance that the new government will be good. Example: the Russian Revolution.
The theory goes that it gets rid of the “bad blood.” You appreciate what you had when you are in the middle of a civil war when there is murder, starvation, and disease.
Link to the God Father scene. It is just human nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5IZ3CZ248