Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!news.uzoreto.com!aioe.org!+pi+BBT4dBC2M6jgIcTJtg.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail From: umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> Newsgroups: alt.polyamory Subject: Re: Busy, busy, busy Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 15:22:40 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <52cc9af7-0711-42ba-ac03-8db50fc3e299n@googlegroups.com> <39KdnVR7PbT98cz8nZ2dnUU7-KvNnZ2d@supernews.com> <0oudnaHUIsNldxz8nZ2dnUU7-fPNnZ2d@supernews.com> Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="5008"; posting-host="+pi+BBT4dBC2M6jgIcTJtg.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com alt.polyamory:32502 On 2021-11-03, Freyja wrote: > Our time has seldom been scarier. Health care and even our democracy is > at risk. I recently read a book called _War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires_ by Peter Turchin. He talks about empires going through "integrative" and "disintegrative" cycles throughout their histories. The United States is certainly an empire, and I think we are living through a "disintegrative" phase that began about the time Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. Vietnam, Watergate, deregulation, deindustrialization, the increase in economic inequality, the loss of public confidence in government: these all suggest the old order is breaking down. But what will replace it? umar