[aekotra]

I agree and share the same sentiment about all your examples. And I would say the trajectory will get worse before it gets better. In fact, I feel collapse is likely.

But this is confusion of ideas once more. Your examples have everything to do with the relentless pursuit of money. This is a separate problem, and is directly related to heart NOT intelligence. Collapse will come to all degenerate societies regardless of intellect and technological prowess.

[jstewartmobile]

My examples are ones of technological society still making loaded 21st century weapons while the typical mindset (for both geniuses and fools) had already been baked-in thousands and thousands of years ago. Too much change, too much power, entirely without baked-in evolutionary heuristics for dealing with it.