I don’t disagree with anything you say from a historical perspective. But consider the impacts of globalization, dependence on technology, and less people having survival skills. I wonder if the transition wouldn’t be something akin to what Black Plague did to Europe.
Maybe it will take a revolution for people to wake up and gain those survival skills. It would be a vast improvement if they learned to handle their own infrastructure repairs.
Tech will survive. Too many people understand how it works and how to build/maintain and repair it.
The idiots could use YT to learn a lot of important skills. I have done so, as have countless others.
This is not a Black Plague-type event. And, even if it was, after the Plague came the most prosperous time the Europeans of that era had ever seen.
Amazing, but for centuries humans survived and thrived without cheap products from around the world, streaming entertainment, central heating and universal plumbing.
Comfort (so-called security) without liberty is hollow. It is the default of slaves and goes all the way back to Exodus, if not before. It is the golden calf.
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