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The world is heading toward the greatest economic crisis of all time. On the one hand, because of Trump’s idiotic war that is blocking the Strait of Hormuz; on the other, because the economy is evaluated solely on the basis of growth. Endless economic growth is the philosophy of a cancer cell. The common good, environmental destruction, and population decline are not factored in at all. This can only lead to a crisis that keeps getting worse. meme #economy #down #downhill #capitalism #war #hormuz #inflation #groth #philosophy #politics #trade #world #worldorder #future #society #trump #finance #poverty #rich #equality #environment #emissions #pollution #earth #civilization #crisis #collapse #apocalypse #doomsday

The #Empire of Caesars and Steel Cages: Donald’s 80th #Birthday and the Quiet Echo of #Rome On Sunday in #Washington, a birthday will be celebrated. #Donald reaches 80. The city does not feel like a quiet #capital. It feels more like an #arena being prepared. Parts of the White House have been rebuilt. Parts have been torn down. Some say one third lies in ruins, another third is turning into something like a modern #stadium. The building of power is treated like a construction site in an old empire. Stone replaced by steel. #Ceremony replaced by #spectacle. It reminds some observers of ancient Rome. Not the Rome of #philosophy or #law. But the Rome of late empire. The Rome of loud #games, public shows, and political #theater. In the Roman #Republic and later Empire, rulers understood a simple rule: people must be fed and entertained. “Bread and games” was not just a phrase. It was a #system. Food kept bodies alive. Spectacle kept attention away from decay. The Roman poet Juvenal described it as panem et circenses. Today, Washington looks different. But the logic feels familiar to some critics. A cage is mentioned. A modern arena. Mixed martial arts fights. No marble floors. No sand from the Colosseum. Instead, metal fences on green grass. The White House lawn becomes a stage. Violence becomes sport. Sport becomes politics. #Politics becomes #entertainment. The Roman comparison is not new. The late empire under Decline of the Western Roman Empire was marked by internal fragmentation, economic pressure, and political #instability. The borders were large. But the system inside became harder to hold together. In the final centuries, emperors relied more on spectacle and loyalty games than on #reform. One emperor often used as a symbol of this shift is #Commodus. He fought in staged #gladiator games. He performed as #Hercules. Ancient historians like Cassius Dio describe this as a sign of imperial decline, though modern historians debate how literal or exaggerated those accounts are. The image is simple. Power turning into performance. In the United States, the comparison is symbolic, not historical. The country remains economically and militarily strong. It is still a global #superpower. But critics sometimes point to rising political polarization, #media spectacle, and the personalization of politics. The modern arena is not the #Colosseum. It is #television, #socialMedia, and live events. Attention is the new currency. The crowd is no longer in stone seats. It is online, scrolling, watching, reacting. In this #story, Donald’s 80th birthday becomes more than a personal event. It becomes a stage. A symbolic moment. A performance of #power inside a republic that still calls itself a #democracy. Some observers describe it in extreme metaphor. They see gladiators where there are athletes. They see emperors where there are presidents. They see decline where others see transformation. History, however, is rarely so clean. The Roman Empire did not fall in a single moment. It changed slowly. Institutions weakened in some places and adapted in others. The “fall” was a long transition, not a sudden #collapse. The United States today shows no equivalent structural collapse. Its institutions, #economy, and global alliances remain strong. But like Rome in its later centuries, it faces internal tensions. Wealth concentration. Political division. Cultural fragmentation. Empires do not always fall like buildings. Sometimes they drift like ships. They keep moving, even when the course becomes unclear. The metaphor of Rome is powerful because it is simple. A great rise. A slow tension. A dramatic imagination of decline. But #history is less like a straight line and more like a spiral. Still, on this Sunday in Washington, the #symbolism writes itself. A leader turns 80. The capital feels like a stage. The crowd expects a show. And somewhere in the background, the old Roman warning echoes again: when politics becomes performance, the audience may forget who is acting—and who is ruling. #usa #news #civilization #future #fail #ethics #problem #humanity #crisis #war #terror #justice #crime #whitehouse #government #game

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Un débat brûlant, alimenté par 100 000 lecteurs : le mythe de Néron qui brûle Rome.

#history #evolution #archaeology #civilization #incredible

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Isso apareceu pra mim agora no #Youtube. Que história mais maluca rs. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-fizFoaAfpk #civilization

Cada vez más padres están tratando de influir en las calificaciones de sus hijos https://yle.fi/a/74-20217917?origin=rss #Organizacionesdeeducación #Educaciónycapacitación #Certificadoescolar #Logrosdeestudio #Capacitación #Civilization #Profesores #Pedagogía #Escuelas #Valores #Padres #OAJ

In SERRC Mark West reviews Omri Boehm's book on Radical Universalism, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/02/25/radical-universalism-a-review-mark-d-west/ #universalism #philosophy #nationalism #civilization #humanrights #human #politics #people #morality #ethics #enlightenment #radical #rights #left #review #serrc #identity #rules

TIL about Kessler Syndrome compliments of NASA Quote 0: Currently, there are over 27,000 tracked pieces of debris, each larger than 10 cm, and millions of smaller, untraceable fragments orbiting Earth. Even a tiny fragment, moving at speeds of up to 28,000 kilometers per hour, can cause catastrophic damage. Quote I: Sudden Alarm? In recent years, space activity has surged dramatically. Companies like SpaceX are launching thousands of satellites for mega-constellations aimed at providing global internet access. While these projects are revolutionary, they also contribute significantly to space congestion. According to Dr. Vishnu Reddy, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, “The number of objects in space launched in the last four years has increased exponentially.” In 2009, a wake-up call came in the form of a collision between the defunct Kosmos-2251 satellite and the operational Iridium-33 communications satellite. The impact created thousands of debris pieces, many of which are still orbiting Earth today. Similar incidents could set off the cascade envisioned by Kessler, leading to a debris belt so dense that space exploration would become nearly impossible. ^Z https://nasaspacenews.com/2025/01/urgent-warning-kessler-syndrome-could-collapse-modern-technology/ #NASA #Kessler #Syndrome #technology #doom #civilization #collapse #stoneage #spaceX #junk #ElonMusk #moron