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(from ukit's link, above)
“It is interesting how collapse theories mirror broader societal issues. During the Cold War, we had theories ascribing collapse to elite mismanagement, class conflict, and peasant revolts. As global warming became a public issue, scholars of the past began to discover that ancient societies collapsed due to climate change. As we have become concerned about sustainability and resource use today, we have learned that ancient societies collapsed due to depletion of critical resources, such as soil and forests. Now that inequality and “the 1%” are topics of public discourse, we have this paper focusing largely on elite resource consumption”.
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I'd wager such mirroring is also behind the paranoid, relentless fantasising about conspiracy theories in tragic, but otherwise mundane events such as the recent Malaysian air disaster.
Yes, something weird and very bad happened, but no — it's not all that likely that a Zionist/Bilderberger-managed international capitalist cartel offed a plane so they could kidnap a load of inventors and cop a patent, capture couple of hundred people and harvest their organs, have a plane with which to crash into a building or fly over a city and EM/Nuke the fuck out of it/the a small country and then blame the whole thing on China as a preëmptive prod to a much-need third world war/global cull.
It's more likely there was a fire or a lone nutter did something awful.
More boring, less headliney, but you know Occam would've nodded agreeably whilst he shaved this morning.
- gosh you really have an ax to grind with conspiracy theorist, even when it has nothing to do with it, you still bring it upGeorgesIV