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In reply to the discussion: The beginning of the end? [View all]IamFortunesFool
(348 posts)While we (liberals) are waking up to the very real and intentional assault on our sensibilities, the conservatives have been feeling like this for a generation now. There are larger forces than just the Russians at work here. The overall pageant of western history is the story of a gradually evolving ethos that today we would call liberalism. It has not been a straight shot, and has been subject to many fits and regressions. The dynamic of painful progress wrought from entrenched habit; entrenched habit born of progressive successes. The fight of conservatism vs liberalism is required for progress to be made; and progressive adaptations are inevitable, as entropy will always increase within a closed system. Things are about to get incredibly painful as we define our next lessons about what it means to be human.
The real fight is for practical sustainability. We have overrun our ecosystem. Our evolutionary success has become so pronounced, that we've become unsustainable. Surviving the current rise of populist totalitarianism doesn't mean much if we don't get our global population in control. The current dystopian future you're foreseeing and articulating is only the tip of the iceberg of what will become the global wars for resources. So far we've only fought over arbitrary lines on the earth, and consumable luxuries like oil and minerals. The battles (even the greatest of wars) have been small compared to overall global populations. Just wait until we start fighting for clean water and air...