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I re-read it, to see if the metaphor has been stretched a little too far. Nope. You seem to have drawn your Historical lessons correctly, and kept the narrative to the point (Chilling read though!). However, begs a few questions: 1. Are we doomed, as a species with sentience and recall, to repeat the same historical mistakes over and over again? 2. This is the only "flaw" that I could find, really: While organised religion has definitely been a stranglehold over humans during the European dark ages, right now, in many parts of the World, it is not Atheism, but fundamentalism that is more and more prevalent (N.B: Lest people be mistaken, I am not talking about Islam only, or singling it out here). So, that one fell slightly off the mark for me. 3. We are also moving towards a post-peak, energy-scarce, capital-scarce, World scenario, so perhaps, these trends might themselves reverse, or die-out before reaching the kind of critical mass it reached during the Roman collapse? But, in general, yours' is a very lateral observation, radically different from the "celebrate all things technology" article linked. Enjoyed reading it, although its suggested implications left a very bad after taste in the mouth. |