The issue with allowing it to simply crumble away is that the last people to die will be the ones exploiting the system, as they have the resources and the power to stay alive the longest. If you want the people who would rebuild society into one that is better than what we already have to still be around when all is said and done, we need to tear it down ourselves.
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forrgott@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What, wait, no; yes, it’s falling apart. Why would you want to prevent that? I don’t want it fixed; I just wanna help others survive while it crumbles to dust around us.
If you don’t let this society die, how will we build the new one??
Signtist@lemm.ee 7 months ago
paddirn@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, I have a no-basis-in-fact conspiracy theory that all the royalty we have in the world, are just the rich folk that managed to survive the last collapse. They come out ahead of everyone else and make up all these reasons about being “ordained by God” or whatever to justify their existence, and the peasants just lap that shit up.
The same thing will happen if our current society collapses, we’ll come out the other side with God-Emperors named Bezos, Zuckerberg, X Æ A-12 Musk, Gates, and Brin, each with their own little fiefdoms to rule over or religions created in their images.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Our societies aren’t the only things dying.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
By working to make changes within the current structure, generally yielding faster results and far less cost in human lives.
There’s no magical “erase history and start completely fresh” button, even if society crumbles.
Katana314@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I want to have a piece of media with a “start fresh” villain who then has it pointed out to him that “starting fresh” means with far fewer resources and leeway available than if he had worked with society’s existing, faulty systems.