On 7 November 2013 20:23, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > But that just means you have to start over with new systems and try to > make them last longer. >
Well that was what I was saying about how in the past civilisations have risen and fallen. That's how it used to happen - but having a (more or less) global civilisation makes it hard to move to the next valley and start again. As for the Medieval system, we've invented, or rather reinvented democracy since then, which was (in my opinion) a jump out of the system of hereditary privilege. (Maybe we can go further, maybe using the internet...) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
