This, but only for western civilization, and the reality is that civilization isn’t actually ending. We just collectively feel like it’s ending because we can feel hundreds of years of privilege slipping away. Like how people who were previously on top of a caste system feel like they’re being discriminated against when that system is abolished, as the world of unequal exchange breaks down and the ability of the so-called First World to dictate what happens in every corner of the globe diminishes the people who live in the imperial core will feel like the world is collapsing, when in fact it’s just that other countries are rising to our level for the first time.
This, but only for western civilization, and the reality is that civilization isn’t actually ending. We just collectively feel like it’s ending because we can feel hundreds of years of privilege slipping away. Like how people who were previously on top of a caste system feel like they’re being discriminated against when that system is abolished, as the world of unequal exchange breaks down and the ability of the so-called First World to dictate what happens in every corner of the globe diminishes the people who live in the imperial core will feel like the world is collapsing, when in fact it’s just that other countries are rising to our level for the first time.