#collapse of civilization

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #painting #rome #fall of rome #civilization #collapse of civilization #architecture #pietro paltronieri #ll mirandolese

[lost-carcosa]

#fall #the fall #collapse of civilization

[mightyflamethrower]

America has been in a veritable cultural revolution since the 1960s. Nearly all our major institutions finally became woke—the administrative state, traditional and social media, universities, K-12, the corporate boardroom, entertainment, professional sports, and the foundations.

So the Obama and the Biden administrations finally seemed to have achieved their aims, in what the Obamas once boasted would be the “fundamental transformation” of America into something unrecognizable by its Founders. But what they gave us was nihilism—the destruction of norms, laws, and customs. There is no border, no criminal justice system, no real president any more.

The citizen is a serf, the illegal alien the veritable citizen. The former needs a passport to reenter the country, the latter is waved on through. There is a slob in gym shorts and a hoodie establishing dress codes for the Senate, teen murderers bragging that they won’t spend a day in jail, and a would-be state legislator filming herself doing sexual gymnastics while begging for cash only to be upset over the invasion of her “privacy.” So the Left got what it wanted and gave us our new America.

The curious result, however, is that even the elite Left is now forced to live among, and cannot always escape, the ruination it created—and for the first time is becoming slightly unhappy with what it birthed.

Critical legal theory has now trickled down into most of our large cities. It insists that criminals are not criminals at all, but rather victims of prior racial and class oppressions. Thus their victims should blame society for their injuries, not their predatory victimizers. Critical legal theory is a sort of Marxist redistribution schema—the middle class almost deserves its equal share of violence commensurate with that of the inner city.

As a result, in Chicago and Oakland and hundreds of other cities, prosecutors let out criminals without bail or sometimes even indictments—in part out of spite and hatred of middle- and upper-middle-class America that supposedly deserves a payback for its bourgeois indifference, in part out of sheer ignorance of the unleashing of human nature once all deterrence is removed.

And the result?

Anxious liberal professionals are fleeing our major cities in the greatest out-of-state migrations since the 1930s. Or they simply avoid their own downtowns. Or sometimes they are reduced to putting placards in their parked cars begging criminals not to smash and loot them, or, for the richer, hiring their own security guards, or using apps to warn others against deposits of urban human excrement on downtown sidewalks.

The Left, aside from their desire for new dependent constituents, felt borders were anachronistic constructs that unfairly denied the inherent and universal human right of the poor and oppressed to go anywhere they pleased, without legality or permission of their targeted hosts. So they erased the southern border. Some 7-8 million illegal entries followed since January 2021.

And the result?

African-Americans in Chicago are demonstrating against mass influxes of illegal aliens into their cities who bury entitlements and social services. The Left used to calls such protests “xenophobia.”

Leftwing New York Mayor Eric Adams has gone from calling those racists who opposed illegal immigration to becoming a veritable nativist. He is now screaming that illegal aliens are “destroying” his city, damning the Biden administration, and warning of bankruptcy. Adams too is unhappy that leftists like himself finally got what they wanted.

Progressives recalibrated a tiny sliver of the population—well less than 1 percent—experiencing historically documented biological “sexual dysphoria” and announced that transgenderism was now both commonplace and an existential civil rights crisis involving anywhere from 5 to 20 percent of American youth and up to 40 percent on college campuses that appeal to the elite leftwing rich kids.

The Left demanded official recognition of multiple genders, the green-lighting of biological males competing in women’s sports, the mainstreaming of risqué drag queen shows often before audiences of minors, and the preemptive smearing of anyone who believed that sexuality is biologically determined rather than fluidly socially constructed.

And the result?

Corporate pile-ons and trendy transgendered advocacies have ruined Bud Light, once American’s premier beer brand. The once beloved but now woke and arrogant Disney Corporation is bleeding audiences, customers, and subscribers. Due to its provocative arrogance, Disney managed to become all but despised by half the nation. Ditto other woke major corporations from Target to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Parents—many of them doctrinaire liberals—of gifted female athletes whose careers are derailed by transgender males, of teenage girls who must use locker rooms with biological males, of small children who witness in-your-face drag queen exhibitions—now feel bushwhacked by their own prior advocacy.

The Left has waged a war on fossil fuels for decades. But once in power it has cancelled critical pipelines, restricted federal oil and gas leases, hectored oil and gas lenders, shut down entire oil fields, and issued arbitrary deadlines when internal combustion engines are to be banned, and clean burning natural gas appliances to be phased out.

And the result of turning the nation “green”?

Gasoline prices spiked to all-time highs, hurting most the poor and minorities, the supposed political base of the Democratic Party. When elections near, only then does a panicked Left begin draining the strategic petroleum reserve, while begging illiberal regimes abroad to pump more oil that they we will not—in a desperate effort to lower gas and diesel prices, at least temporarily until elections are over.

Bicoastal wealthy elites lecture down to Americans about the existential crisis of “climate change” and the radical revolutions necessary to “transition” (a favorite, multipurpose woke word) to solar, wind, and battery power.

And the result? Those who can least afford high energy prices now pay over $5 a gallon for gas and more for diesel in our wealthiest coastal blue states—on the directive of their affluent utopian advocates.

Leftwing rich liberals for a half century have virtue signaled their support for affirmative action and de facto racial quotas. The unspoken presumption was that they would always have the wherewithal to navigate around such systemic discrimination to ensure their own still went to the “right” colleges and universities and onto prestigious jobs and positions.

But then the woke revolution redefined affirmative action as “reparatory” admissions and hiring. That radical expansion of racial quotas meant elite universities like Stanford and Princeton soon bragged in racist fashion that they would only admit so-called whites as 20-30 percent of their incoming classes, despite their traditional proportional representation of 65-70 percent of the general population.

Soon such progressive discriminatory policies meant that after athletes, so-called legacies, the children of faculty and administrators, and the offspring of multimillionaire donors were accommodated, the new tiny white quotas were completely exhausted—even for the anointed children of the bicoastal left.

High-paid suburban and progressive professionals whose privileged, and high achieving sons and daughters with 4.0-plus grade point averages and near perfect SAT scores, with an array of “community service” blue-ribbon resumés—were summarily rejected en mass from America’s most prestigious schools.

Prior SAT camps, prep schools, tutors, “extracurricular” enrichment summer excisions, and prestigious internships and apprenticeships went all for naught under the new racism.

And the result of the war on meritocracy? Elite liberals were shocked, shocked!

Such reverse-discrimination had traditionally targeted solely the children of deplorables, irredeemables, and clingers, the meritocratic lower white working classes, who were usually preposterously written off as white privileged and supremacists and thus usually summarily rejected. Yet the architects of affirmative action never dreamed that their Frankensteinian creation would devolve into a quota monster devouring its parent.

As far as the professors, who opportunistically applauded the new -studies therapeutic courses, the DEI-apparat, the reparatory admissions, as well as the end of SAT and ACT scores and of the comparative ranking of high-school GPAs?

For those who taught real disciplines—languages, traditional history and literature, science, math, and engineering—they faced three dilemmas under the new nonmeritocratic admissions: 1) inflate their grades, 2) reduce class requirements, or 3) maintain grading and course standards and thus be targeted by DEI commissars should their grading reveal a “systemic” pattern of “racism.”

After spending their careers damning administrative “bloat,” and the siphoning of university resources from teaching to fund administrative fiefdoms, suddenly faculty were forced to agree that they needed thousands of DEI supervisors and commissars, who were even more superfluous but also far more intrusive into faculty autonomy than the old-boy functionaries of the past. The result? Is it now “All administrators are bad, but some are not as bad as others?”

These examples of liberal utopianism backfiring on its godfathers are becoming endless as the Jacobin revolution known as woke destroys meritocracy, the ancient laws of human nature, pragmatism, and common sense. Will the revolution then finally wither away once it continues to gulp down its own privileged woke sacred cows?

Perhaps, but perhaps not.

Woke is a religion, not an empirically based revolution. It requires blind faith and ideological zealotry that ignores data, smears apostates as blasphemers, and is fueled by a climate of fear as it uses public shaming, cancel culture, doxing, shadow banning, ostracism, and career destruction to bulldoze ahead.

That it is now mowing down its originators may not matter much, even if for the short term the current boomeranging should be teaching leftists that their ideology is unworkable and ultimately destructive of civilization. History, after all, is replete with misguided zealots who even to the very first shot of their own firing squads still believed in the catastrophic cultural and political upheavals they had unleashed on others.

Partly woke continues, then, because its privileged creators still cling to the belief, “What I create for others, certainly will not apply to me and mine.” And when it does, as it is beginning to now, they stay long in denial and continue their woke advocacy because they still hope their progressive piety and fides will someday earn them heaven on earth.

#politics #culture #collapse of society #collapse of civilization

[odinsblog]

Nothing to see here, just fire + floods + climate change

#politics #climate change #climate crisis #global warming #nyc #nyc flooding #nyc floods #climate collapse #civil engineering

[leftbluebirdthing]

The Final Collapse

THE FINAL COLLAPSE

Is AI Deceiving Christians?

How AI Is Misleading Christians…

Proof AI Is Deceiving Christians

Should Christians Use AI?

American Christian Exposes The Real Danger Of AI

American Christian Forces AI To Expose Its Real Purpose

1 John 2:18

"Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that Anti-Christ is coming, so now many Anti-Christs have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour."

There is no doubt that we’re in times of confusion and uncertainty. Many would even say the end times or as John calls it, “the last hour”.

Some bible scholars say that this verse references the rise of AI,

And Christians have been shocked by the woke anti-faith bias of Chat GPT

Unfortunately, the truth is far more sinister…

AI’s influence is rapidly spreading around the world in disguise.

And most people are blissfully unaware.

Or perhaps already corrupted by its “touch.”

If you’ve ever had a bad feeling about artificial intelligence,

Perhaps it is God’s way of warning you that

AI is NOT here for what you think…

Blinded by the trillion-dollar profits,

Big Tech has no idea of what it has unleashed upon the world.

And they may have already lost control of their own creation.

This short documentary exposes 5 shocking facts misguided tech gurus are desperately trying to hide…

Therefore, it could be scrubbed off the internet at any moment.

Click the book below to watch the video:

THEFINALCOLLAPSE.COM

#Dystopian Fiction #Apocalyptic Literature #Post-Apocalyptic Society #End of the World #Survival Story #Catastrophe Narrative #Fictional Collapse #Future Society #Armageddon Fiction #Environmental Catastrophe #Societal Breakdown #Chaos and Disorder #Humanity's Last Stand #Collapse of Civilization #Desperate Times #Last Days of Earth #World Ending Events #Civilization's Downfall #Hope in the Ruins #Aftermath Fiction

[millionmovieproject]

#fuck capitalism #capitalism kills #we live in hell #socialism now #abolish capitalism #peoples union #tweets #fall #autumn #collapse of civilization

[maudexgoals]

#collapse of civilization #fall #revolution

[catmint1]

Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.

—Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

#quotes #charlie jane anders #all the birds in the sky #twee #hipster humor #collapse of civilization #hipsters #humor #text

[doomsayersunited]

#doomsday #human extinction #apocalypse #civilization collapse

[unrestedjade]

ART, visibly on the edge of a meltdown because SecUnit replied to a message from Holism with "k": i'm going to puke stop talking to Holism i swear to god. baby you're everything to me please please don't fuck Holism

#murderbot #system collapse spoilers #murderhelion #i've not yet begun to be obnoxious about this btw #i'm making a mountain out of this molehill #of course it's trying to seduce SecUnit; it's talking about civil engineering! #the relief ART must feel when SecUnit foists Three onto Holism instead #suck it Holism SecUnit's a jock it cares not for your intellectual temptations #go design an irrigation system or a bridge or something and die about it

[carionto]

Accurate Reenactments Based On Facts

Most cultures across the Galaxy do their utmost to preserve and remember their history, both the great achievements, and the terrible mistakes. Humans go a few dozen steps further.

They introduced us to a concept called "Historical reenactments" - accurate recreations of the situations and conditions of ancient events, usually battles, played out with prop equipment by real people. They also said they sometimes do these just for fun and don't care about being 100% accurate.

This particular reenactment was of a battle called Thermopylae. Using numerous historical records, they recreated the location, printed slightly lighter versions of the armor (well, helmets only for some) they wore, and dull weapons with embedded stun shockers that would create a kinetic "bump" upon contact to prevent actual injury by pushing the person back instead.

Once everyone was geared up the atmosphere changed, both visually as the holographic projectors did their thing, and from the Humans themselves - their demeanor became that of... wilderness. Ferocity. Deadly focus. It was quite fear inducing even from afar.

Then the defenders in red, the "Spartans", created a sort of spiky dome with their shields and spears. Then the attackers in blue, the "Persians" unleashed a terrifying volley of arrows, the sky hologram went darker, then a bright beam of light shone upon the defenders as they swept off arrows stuck to their shields in dramatic fashion before proceeding to charge towards their assaulting foes.

We noticed the "Spartans" were all much larger than the "Persians", and actually were equipped with subtle and very modern exoskeletons. Perplexed by this we asked if these Spartans had a very particular technological advantage for their time:

"Well, not as far as we can tell, but based on the materials we have, Spartans were, like, really buff and super strong compared to the average person of the time. Plus, according to the feats of strength they supposedly displayed, we suspect they became an extinct branch of Humanity at some point, so the exoskeletons are there to mimic what we think they were like. Anyway, look, this is the coolest part."

As they spoke, the artificial gravity was lowered slightly and there was a spike in the power output from the exoskeleton equipped Spartans. Now they were flinging the approaching Persians dozens of feet into the air, a single bare-chested man kicked three of them at once backwards at a whole group, knocking the wind out of them.

This sort of extreme violence continued for several minutes.

Suddenly, an incredibly large Persian man on a throne was carried to what was effectively the center stage. Him and a heavily bearded Spartan exchanged a dramatic dialogue, the Spartan threw his spear at the Persian, who dodged it with a single turn of his head, then proceeded to summon a massive horde of small Persians who quickly began to overrun the Spartans.

There were bodies and shields and spears and pieces of armor flying everywhere, but gradually all the red became engulfed by the blue, and only one remaining Spartan managed to wriggle his way out of the carnage and make a run for it back to their city in the distance.

Seemingly satisfied after plucking out the bearded Spartan from the pile, the giant Persian roared in triumph and this is when the reenactment ended and everyone gathered for a feast.

So this is how ancient Human Battles went, huh.

"Well, not all of them. Usually it's between more equal forces in large open fields, or prolonged sieges, which can be a bit boring to recreate.

You should come back next month, we'll be doing an old naval battle between the British Empire and Independent Pirates Lords. It ends with a really sweet whirlpool showdown. Man, what are the odds of that happening, eh?"

#humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #humans are deathworlders #humanity fuck yeah #story #carionto #300 #reenactment #pirates of the caribbean #humans like movies #movies are historically accurate if you've gone through several civilization collapses

[wingheadshellhead]

the selective amnesia of marvel writers when it comes to major comic events makes me so insane. not only has tony been on a team with miles (all-new, all-different avengers, 2015), and has been a mentor figure to him since he crossed over from the ultimates universe (ultimate end, 2015), they somehow conveniently forgot that tony stark died in civil war II to protect miles. MILES. the kid he’s calling “newbie�� and is somehow not one of his top favorite spider-people.

why is tony treating miles like they’ve never met when he went to war against carol and was punched into a coma to protect miles from being arrested for a crime he didn’t commit???? like mama let’s research before we start writing these comics

anyway yeah miles is one of tony stark’s favourite spider-people in the multiverse HE WAS WILLING TO DIE TO PROTECT HIM

#tony stark #miles morales #miles morales: spider man #saw this after lurking around on your twitter lara #and ppl were posting other great panels but i was like hold on #where's miles holding tony's collapsed body in the la pieta pose #i am literally a broken record about cwII because i refuse to let it go #ive become that person who always brings up cw(II) at every given opportunity #but i also think that if marvel chooses to hoist these stupid fucking events on us without thinking #about the long-term ramifications and storytelling effects #then i should be able to harp on this whenever i want #@ #type: text #type: comics #universe: 616 #comic event: civil war II #comic: civil war II #ft: miles morales #character: tony stark #dynamic: tony & miles #also ziglar pulled top 5 completely out of his ass #can you even NAME those top 5 people ??? i'll wait !

[rubia-peregrinart]

decided to make more navi refs and naturally, the Gender Icons are first 🙏

#megaman battle network #serenade.exe #slur.exe #gijinka #exejinka verse #rubiart #serenade guards the balance between cyber and real world #but leaving the secret area would cause the former to collapse because they're that powerful #no one knows how long they've been around #and there are rumors that they don't remember their own civil name or age #slur's the last remaining asteroid navi (aka the theoretical exe counterparts of stardroids) #they can only be on earth through its cyberworld #they've lost most of their memory since duo destroyed their common home planet #and act as its herald without much question #learning 'earth' is another name for 'terra' might change things though :)c

[slotumn]

When it comes to Almyra, I headcanon that their political landscape/attitude is all about having a lot of room (and balls) to fuck around, as opposed to Fódlan being neurotic and inward-facing and closed off.

It's not that Almyra is necessarily morally "better" or whatever, but I like to think there's a certain confidence that comes from being a large superpower. Domestic unrest, infighting, turmoil— all of those are problems, of course, but they're also confident that at the end of all that, Almyra will still be standing, one way or another. In contrast to Fódlani nations thinking that if they lose control, if they don't get to have it their way specifically, everything will come tumbling down and it's basically going to be the end of the world.

And both of those attitudes get synthesized in an interesting way in Claude, who's like ok if this doesn't work out then it's not the end of the world as long as I'm alive. But also, if I fuck up then Leicester will tear itself apart and my career in Fódlan will be so fucking over, come on I ran away from home and changed my identity to do this please

Tl;dr gotta love a dude who is laid back and neurotic at the same time.

#claude von riegan #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #almyra #fe3h meta #slotalks #hc that almyran history is like #'there was a 40 year civil unrest following a dynastic collapse' #'when the dust cleared and the new regime settled in the country still had the same territory and administrative districts' #'sometimes a king got experimental and did some crazy shit but lol'

[bonefall]

if the cats had phones, heather and breeze would probably have eachother saved as "my love" or sm and harestar as just "the tunnelbun guy"

I think Heather would mark them by nicknames or have them set in a super utilitarian way like

Husband Breep

Husband Harst

So they sort alphabetically in her contact list, she's practical like that, but also playful enough that she likes petnames

Harestar capitalizes both parts of the name, and also he changed the font on his phone so the text is cursive by default

BreezePelt HeatherTail

And Breezepelt changes their names constantly based on inside jokes

Yoog (typo in the groupchat Harestar has to live with now)

DO NOT FEED (took his tunnelbun this morning before going to work)

#Fennelposting #Anthro au lmao #I think if I did this it'd be a post apoc like the new zelda game #It would be super cool for Holly to be responsible for the collapse of like. Civilization #Top 10 girls who caused the bronze age collapse

[oncillaphoenix]

man. reading wolves of the beyond at a young age probably gave me a nonstandard view of what children are able to handle

#wolves of the beyond #featuring such hits as: cult where you dance to death. execution via the infinite rabies guy. the collapse of civilization #guardians of ga'hoole also had a lot of wild stuff but not really anything that wasn't also in warrior cats and the underland chronicles #('cept maybe st. aggie's) #but warrior cats did not have an infinite rabies guy