George Mobus: A Winter Solstice Observation (or Two)

[Warpy]

4. I came to the same conclusion years ago, albeit less elegantly stated

and it gives me a great deal of comfort to know empires, especially the personal empires as designed by rich men like the Koch boys, have their ultimate failure built right into them. So do empires created by overreaching and greedy tradesmen.

The species as a whole continues to grow, albeit two steps forward, one and a half steps back. Nature has come down on the side of the progressive, but only just. Even if we are thrust back into a new dark age by a regressive, backwards looking repressive system, it won't last, either. Climate change will throw a spanner into the works nicely and rigid totalitarianism will be only a very local phenomenon as adaptation becomes the key to survival.

I won't see it, of course, but I do envy the young a bit because they will.