#civilization

@COVID19_DISEASE

Capitalism has never been a death cult, but a murder cult.

Now it's ramped up with ignorance and fear and the #dunningkrugereffect

Yeah, 54% of American adults read at the grade 6 level or lower.

This affects critical thinking, moral philosophy, and media analysis skills.

Thanks Reagan.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now

#literacy #criticalthinking #education #k12 #civilization #neofeudalism #democracy #fascism #serfs #CovidIsNotOver #h5n1

John Michael Greer, of The Archdruid Report, is back, and is discussing the end of #civilizations... YOURS.

"The official voices of every #civilization, as the world they know slides down the well-greased chute into history’s dumpster, babble breezily onward, convinced that nothing of the sort can possibly happen to them.

For the sake of clarity, I’m going to cover a few of the basics very quickly for those readers who weren’t here a decade ago..."

Lords of the Fall
https://www.ecosophia.net/lords-of-the-fall/

@georgetakei

Yeah, 54% of American adults read at the grade 6 level or lower.

Many of them are elected officials now.

This affects critical thinking, moral philosophy, and media analysis skills.

Thanks Reagan.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now

#literacy #criticalthinking #education #k12 #civilization #neofeudalism #democracy #fascism #serfs

Tech pioneer #JaronLanier argues for a different way to think about #ai One thing I worry about is AI accelerating a trend that digital tech in general — and #socialmedia in particular — has already started, which is to pull us away from the physical world and encourage us to constantly perform versions of ourselves in the virtual world (#avatars). We need a business model for #civilization that isn’t self-destructive.
#future #vr #humanity #reality #bigtech
https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/407154/jaron-lanier-ai-religion-progress-criticism

Avoiding the United States is not just a matter of patriotic principle; it’s a matter of simple safety. Canadians were willing to risk American gun culture, and more. But this American government does not recognize fundamental rights, and you are no longer protected by the law if you set foot in that country. Canada should join other nations in issuing stern travel advisories.
#Cdnpoli #Canada #fascism #authoritarianism #civilization #USpolitics #travel
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/theres-a-terrifying-reason-to-avoid-trumps-america/article_2a2c5853-640a-4374-abb1-c9509db4dcee.html

https://youtu.be/FsaieZt5vjk

Old video, but I like how it did

#civilization #spengler #west #philosophy

Regime Change in the West?

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west

#poltics #economics #capitalism #culture #civilization #international

Where can I find feral or wild humans? I seem to be surrounded by domesticated humans.
#civilization #domestication #homosapiens #humans #nature #wildlife #zoology

I love little acapella things like this. This is typically done by a choir, but I stumbled across this this afternoon, and it gave me chills. This group is so incredibly talented and I had to share.
Baba Yetu (acapella) #civilization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDn4s5RCN8

Fermi paradox solved.

#climate #climatecrisis #capitalism #civilization #astrobiology #socialism #XR

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer

Cabernet inspired 2 stanza haiku (I think)

Used to think human

#civilization would #end

with #whimper not a #bang

Thanks to #Trump #GOP

we get to live a little

interesting times

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Sue me if I got it wrong

Things that are NOT a #choice, in no particular order:
- Being #LGBTQ+
- Being #Disabled / Unable to Work
- Skin Color
- #Economic Circumstances at Birth
- Country of Origin
- Brain Chemistry

Things that ARE a choice:
- #Religion
- #Bigotry
- #Taxation
- #Government Spending
- Systemic #Equity or Lack Thereof

We need to choose to make life better for the 98%, because of those things that are NOT a choice. #Taxtherich, and use the funds to promote economic equity. That's called #Civilization .

There's been a pattern of me posting something critical of civilization and someone getting *really* mad and coming for me in replies. I was pondering this the past couple of days after the latest iteration of this phenomenon.

I came to the conclusion that the folks doing this are *terrified* and reacting like a wild creature that's backed into a corner. Lashing out in anger as a form of defense against the possibility that the Leviathan they've been embedded in since birth is actually a force for their destruction wrapped in a shiny package.

I was discussing this with my eldest, a very perceptive spawn of mine and he said it's existential dread on the level of eldritch horror. I can't say he's wrong.

The problem is, how can we have a discussion about this with people in feral wounded animal mode? It's one of the reasons I've come to the conclusion that we're not going to be able to walk away like the inmates of prior civilizations were able to do. We're going to have to ride the falling giant to its inevitable end and forage off its rotting corpse in the aftermath.

This makes me really melancholy. But then I remember back to when I was assimilating all the anti-civ stuff I was reading about a decade and a half ago, and how it made me feel like I was losing it for a while until I found a balance in my head, and I guess I can't fault folks for reacting like this. I've long lived on the knife edge of paradox of various kinds and am no stranger to navigating the cognitive dissonance that occurs while figuring out how to fit it into my worldview. Most folks just aren't, and can't, and we'll just have to sink or swim when the time comes.

#Civilization #EndCiv #Apathy

There is no such thing as a "peaceful" civilization. Civilization is *always* built on oppression, theft, genocide (whether human or non-human). Rule of law is always at the threat of having a gun pointed in your face. People need to quit thinking civilization is some kind of benign state that keeps a peaceful world.

I hate to bring up everybody's hated FBI snitch and transphobe but this film (despite the messenger) made by @franklinlopez covering Derrick Jensen's anti-civ thoughts, is still apt. Ignore the messenger and take in the message.

I say it again in all-caps in case it didn't sink in: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PEACEFUL CIVILIZATION

#Civilization #Oppression #EndCiv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r3ZPrVsUYw

Civilization VII update 1.1.1 adds quick move, lots of UI improvements, a new start position and lots of fixes https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/civilization-vii-update-1-1-1-adds-quick-move-lots-of-ui-improvements-a-new-start-position-and-lots-of-fixes/

#CivilizationVII #Civilization #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

#Civ7 on #PS5 feels like Cyberpunk 2077 levels of buggy. Here’s stuff I’ve experienced.
- the Unicode bug in the screen caps below
- the resource assignment screen sometimes just glitches and won’t let me assign anything. I press o to back out, R1 to go back in, and it works
- I played multiplayer the first time last night and for half the session my friend did not get tooltips popping up. They’d work for a while, then they’d stop. We rebooted, reconnected and they just wouldn’t stay.

#civilization #civilizationvii

Philip II’s restored city, Philippopolis, opens at Nebet Tepe https://www.byteseu.com/?p=854044 #AncientHistory #Bulgaria #Civilization #settlements #StoneAge

"This is a broken civilization. A warped and twisted dystopia. The waking nightmare we are witnessing in Gaza is the result of everything that we have become as a society. Those dead and mutilated children on your social media feed are the fruit on the tree of the western world." Caitlin Johnson
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #IsraelIsATerroristState #USPolitics #UKPolitics #EUPolitics #Civilization

Thanks to the success and popularity of the recent Fallout TV show many fallout players are returning to their favourite Fallout game. However what if you wanted to play a #4X turn based strategy game set in the #Fallout universe? Well fear not, CivFanatics and the #Civilization series has you covered! :)

While there are no Fallout mods for #Civ2 per se, there are plenty of similar Apocalyptic wasteland scenarios that many of which can be found here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/scenario-hunt.657278/

However the best ones are for good old #Civ3 where Thorgrimm created the truly remarkable Fallout The Rebirth of Civilization total conversion scenario based on the earlier Fallout games. Then Sudo007 took Thorgrimm's work and created a Fallout Liberty scenario based on Fallout 3. Both suffered some frustrating bugs however in 2024 Fallible_Fiend patched both scenarios with bug fixes and new features.

Fallout Rebirth: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/fallout-the-rebirth-of-civilization.199196/
Fallout Liberty: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/fallout-liberty.540161/

Give them a try!

@civfanatics What a great article you found about collaboration between the Shawnee and Firaxis! One of the great things about the Civ games is the spark they ignite to learn about more cultures and time periods. It's great to hear about them supporting language preservation.

#VideoGames #Languages #Shawnee #Indigenous #Civilization