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almost every major society has collapsed once they have become a multicultural society and loose their founding culture... jared diamond is a jewish supremacist who wants everyone to look away from that fact
Basically a civilization starts to decline when it gets rich enough and pampered enough to lose sight of the need for ethics and the core values that make its citizens work hard to provide for themselves
Maybe I am an idiot, but I think there is a single explanation for why societies collapse and that is population. Once a population is in overshoot and is bigger than the environment can support, society collapses. Obviously they can collapse for other reasons as well, but this is a way to guarantee collapse.
@youtubfool The problem is that we are going to need the oil to build the green economy. If we stopped using oil today, 100%, nearly all of our energy production would be used to create more energy production.
Jared, fairly straightforward stuff. We, homo sapiens are selfish and will always act as individuals until we need to need to adopt a group behaviour (group dynamics). Every cell in our body is designed to survive.
I find it strange that he equates nation-states with societies in their collapse. The former nation state of yugoslavia collapsed but the societies within it most certainly did not, in fact it was competition and lack of cooperation BETWEEN the various societies within it that caused its collapse.
@elementz1986 Hey buddy, we're all in the same boat here. We all came to this site in good faith, but it's difficult to concentrate. Better to read his books,
Today's society will propably collapse not because we will run out of oil, but because we ALREADY cannot pump enough oil out of the ground to meet the demand.
If you want to know more, then please defer to the movie Zeitgeist Addendum, available here on youtube.
USA and the rest of American Continent was conquered by genocidal European mercantile military. Since its Independence from English absolutist Monarchy its been controlled,ruled andmanipulated by FINANCIAL MAFIA of certain FAMILIES. USA has never been a democracy and its so called middle class was relatively better off WORKING MEN AND WOMEN, dont shed crocodile tears for a few sold out working class to MONEY SYSTEM. capitalism is WAGE SLAVERY
Carrying capacity overshoot pretty much does sum it all up with one single factor. It is kinda broad subject that summarizes multiple factors but it still is pretty much the main threat these days, and in most of the past scenarios.
I read the his book, Collapse. It was an elaboration of his lecture, going deeper into the five point framework.Who cares about his hair, why is our society so impaired with physical attributes and aesthetic appearance. He won a Pulitzer Prize, what have you done, besides criticize people for their appearance? Your mouth is where your judgments end and your actions begin. So you've degraded a Professor and Doctorate, what are You going to do to help society understand anything. Pay attention.
@adamsinaz Did you notice the comb-over?...I did.Its hilarious.And it speaks volumes of the man's vanity.You need to take a chill pill and relax.What are ya,some type of academic groupie?
I think it may also prove helpful to some of the viewers here to try to evaluate many of the more strident claims of the anti-theist critique ("brights") from a ideological/ metaphysics perspective. Check out the recent article by Jackson Lears in the May 16, 2011 issue of the The Nation entitled "Same Old New Atheism" .The article offers a compelling analysis of Sam Harris' works. Consideration is given to general secular social perspectives
Why did Israel collapse so many years ago sending the tribes out into the world and how can collapsed societies return to the homeland two thousand years later saying it's mine, I want it back?
It seems to me that the biggest issue is the personality types who end up in control- these folk are master manipulators hell bent on control and power- until they are removed from their positions I’m not sure what else we can do.
Yeah... why is it that intelligent, articulate persons, such as Professor Diamond, cannot look into the mirror and see that the uber-comb-over isn't working?
We really need to wake up. At our current rates we are running out of everything in this global society. When we run out of oil the world will collapse and it will not be pleasant. It's time that we design a sustainable society. This may scare some people but look at how far we have come, how much we know, what we can do. We need to use trees only as fast as they grow back, we need to design a system that recycles all of our metals, so that we never have to mine from low yield land. We need...
@MacabreManifesto ...to harness energy derived only from quickly renewing geothermal and solar-thermal sources. We need to create a plan for a sustainable population and make it popular to willingly fallow this plan before we force ourselves, through dictatorship, to kill ourselves. There are so many problems and the only way to solve them is through the science based governance of technocracy, but that's just my opinion, who else has a plan?
@mtszabo Do your research too. Technocracy is undemocratic, officials aren't elected but are appointed on the basis of being measured as having the highest levels of competency in the necessary fields of expertise. Sort of how you get a high paying job today. I believe that if enough people find their leaders unpopular then they should be able to impeach them (society shouldn't have to submit to tyrants), but putting our leaders up there should be an objective process.
Absolutely. We keep electing people that are dumber than we are, and wonder why nothing productive ever happens. The problem I can see with Technocracy, from a cursory glance, is: Who's doing the appointing? Is there one corruptible person at the top, or are the uneducated masses in charge, or would it be more of a quorum? Of course, there's also the problem of, how do you convince those same masses that completely changing the government is a good idea?
@mtszabo The only way the masses will ever change government if their current situation is exceptionally dire, which is why Technocracy got it's moment in the spotlight during the great depression. If the government survives and it's people thrive then it is doing a good job, if it has created a sustainable society, one that doesn't depend on an increasing rate of consumption, it is doing a great job because it is actually thinking into the future. No society has ever been very concerned...
@MacabreManifesto ...with thinking of keeping the prosperity that it experiences in the present, guaranteeing it's presence into an indefinite future. And now we have procrastinated so long that we have nearly hit peak oil, the basis of most of our prosperity, and are not looking very hard for mass producing alternatives to this. Technocracy will solve the problems (I think) that the free market can't (until it is too late). Technocracy is basically an oligarchy where those in power obtain...
@MacabreManifesto ...their positions by proving that they are the most intelligent and skilled candidates who have applied (no one will be forced into the government). a super majority popular vote of the people could impeach one of these leaders but no one could elect a new one, a scientific process would elect the new one. The government would also have very minimal power over you, it's only purpose is to efficiently distribute the goods and services that would make us happy and healthy...
@MacabreManifesto ...It wouldn't even recognize marriage because it does not even deal in that sort of capacity. You can fuck whomever and have a baby and that baby is independent once it is able to be. There is also no money as we know it. Everyone is issued an energy certificate and it basically guarantees you an access to so many goods and services per year whose cost is based on the energy needed to provide such goods and services. It's hard to summarize it in a comment.
We need to figure out how to split water into hydrogen and oxygen efficiently, thereby allowing us to use it as fuel. That's the ultimate in renewable energy. You burn it and you get water vapor, which then turns back into water. If you can collect it and re-use it without releasing it, you could potentially have a vehicle that never runs out of fuel.
@mtszabo What are you talking about? When hydrogen and oxygen combine into oxygen it is an exothermic reaction and when you separate the hydrogen and oxygen in water, back into H2 and O2 then that is an endothermic reaction! That means that, by definition, it takes at least as much energy to turn water into H2 and O2, as it takes H2 and O2 to turn into water. if you think you can do it go ahead, but you'll have a better chance at creating a working version of M.C. Escher's waterfall.
@MacabreManifesto Finding ever more efficient ways to do this endothermic reaction is a valuable asset since we still use such an exothermic reaction to produce commercial H2 and O2 for products such as rocket fue But keep in mind: 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O is the chemical reaction that fuels rocket propulsion, but it takes more electrical energy to create that H2 and O2 then is generated in those famously powerful rocket explosions. You will never generate more energy in the exothermic reaction...
@MacabreManifesto then you will put into the endothermic reaction, in fact, the efficiency is less than 50%, it took tons more energy in the form of sunlight and geothermal tides and plate tectonics to make all of the oil that has ever existed, then we will ever make use of by using it. You need to go back to high school chemistry if you don't understand this.
That's exactly my point. If we can figure out how to break the H₂O bond without it taking more energy than would be released in the burning of the resulting Brown's Gas as fuel, we would have an endless renewable fuel source. I didn't say I had the answer! Just that it would be the ultimate renewable energy source, considering that the planet is ⅔ water. Clearly, using electrolysis is -not- the way to go (which is why I stressed the need for efficiency in my original post.)
@mtszabo This is physically impossible! the same thing could be said for salt! If you could produce more energy by combining Sodium and Chlorine (don't try this at home, unless you have the chemical experience btw), then you could by separating salt into Sodium and Chlorine then you will have solved the worlds energy crisis forever! The problem is that it takes at least as much energy to reconvert products of an exothermic reaction in an endothermic reaction, but if some of that energy is...
@MacabreManifesto ...going away in the form of propulsion, in, say a motor, as well as most of it being lost to friction, all going to entropy (all energy goes from usable energy to unusable energy, basically) then not even half of the exothermic energy is going to turn around and perpetuate the cycle of creating new fuel. If what you are saying is true, batteries would never die and would never have to be charged.
It's physically impossible with current technology, yes. (Salt would be impracticable for use in a motor because the waste product would crystallize, whereas burning 2H2 and O2 results in water vapor as an exhaust product.) Like I said, the trick here is coming up with an efficient method of splitting the bond. I saw something promising a few years back using radio waves, but admittedly I haven't really followed up on it.
@mtszabo Well if you are talking about genetically engineering organisms (or viruses) into taking energy from the sun and turning it into calories then of course we should always opt for the best available fuel available. Water turning into gas is practical because there is so much water. But you do get how this is ultimately solar power right?
Ultimately, yes... but if you're going to look at it that way, the electric cars we have now are ultimately fossil-fuel-based, since the power companies primarily burn fossil fuels to produce electricity... So, any technology that can convert water into fuel is a major step in the right direction. The bit in the video about the high-efficiency batteries is also something we need badly. I'm just glad to see people working on such things....
@mtszabo I know. I get the fact that electricity is not an energy source, but the way that you presented your case for water as fuel didn't sound like you actually got that water is not an energy source but that it is a medium through which energy could be aquired. before that TED talk about genetically engineered viruses that made bacteria who could generate mass amounts of H2 and O2 per unit of time (the things to consider about ways of generating energy are: How much energy do you generate...
@MacabreManifesto ...from this method? How quickly can we generate it? How much energy and resources are needed to create this generator and how long will it last [how much does it cost to find and obtain the oil itself? for example]? And, how sustainable is this method?) I would never have thought that endothermic 2H20 > 2H2 + O2 would ever be a possible candidate for a medium of energy generation, but now I do. Gas > Water potential is a pollution free method of energy storage, so if there...
@MacabreManifesto ...is a way to generate a lot of energy from the environment and get it into this form then go for it. You basically deserve 1,000 Nobel prizes if such a thing works.
Per your profile, you're 19 at the present time, yes? If so, I do hope you're majoring in some form of Science, because you seem to be well-above average intelligence. It's going to be your generation that builds on work such as this and obtains those 1000 Nobel prizes....
@mtszabo I consider my self above average intelligence, and I feel that that is a sad representation of America. I'm not majoring in science, I'm probably going to drop out of college, where I'm going I no longer feel I need to pay an institution money to give me a certificate of intelligence, although I feel personally motivated by my interest in the world to study and get smarter. If I feel the need to get a degree I'll go back but I don't feel like I'll change the world. I do, however...
@MacabreManifesto ...feel like this is a pivotal point in human history because of many issues but at the base of it all, in my view, is simply the mundane issue of our access to extraneous energy. If this is not solved we're fucked
Yes... you sound a lot like me at your age. I also dropped out, for similar reasons. I must say, I do regret that decision now. Think long and hard before you do the same.
You're correct about this being a pivotal point in human history, but it's definitely solvable. We need, as a people, to give up on greed and focus on creating a better world for future generations. The forefathers of this country knew this, but somehow, the banks managed to take over anyhow...
@mtszabo I don't think I'm in far enough for it to matter. I don't want the burden of huge school depts hanging over me. College can be just as much of a bad thing as a good one monetary wise. The forefathers of our country were incredibly fallible men and I would consider many of them to have very bad morals by today's standards. I don't really look at the founding fathers as being any more iconic than the icons of today. They enjoy big fish fame, and in a hundred years, so will today's icons.
I made the same rationalizations for dropping out. The older you get, the harder it is to go back.
Your views of the founding fathers may or may not be accurate; nonetheless, one of the things to which they were adamantly opposed was centralized banking. Check out "The Creature From Jekyll Island."
Well, then, to further your education: Channel Spamming can be defined as, "Writing a multitude of comments across a specific channel with the express intent of being a complete and total douchebag." In your case, Mission Accomplished.
He must only possess awareness on a large scale such as whole societies. On a smaller scale such as self-awareness it appears he does not. Or else he would realize how silly he looks and how he isn't fooling anyone.
If our society collapses it will be largely due to the widespread confusion of primary institutions focusing our whole civilization on phantom wealth as opposed to real wealth.Money is a commodity fiction and to steer our society by its abstract indicators is a massive delusion.Money is not wealth.
I have to come back and watch this talk every once in a while simply because it is science at its best, so accessible, elegant and logical. Is anyone iistening?
Australians should stop being Australians? Allowing Miconesia and Indonesia to overwhelm them will preserve their society? Diversity is one element in the collapse of society that is too unPC for this lecturer to touch. Accomodating diverse populations taxes the resources of any society and feeds a collapse, regardless to phrases such as "Diversity is our Strength."
Sorry, he is wrong about Yugoslavia. The society did not collapse. I am American but I lived there in the 1990s. Yugoslavia was a short lived union of south Slavic (yugo=south) nations that already existed. They had old cultures and societies that have survived the collapse of Yugoslavia, although the Orthodox Christian culture of Kosovo was wiped out by the Albanians. To our shame, NATO and the US assisted an Islamic takeover in Kosovo. Today, a Muslim from Kosovo killed two USAF and 2+.
Civilisational collapse, is better understood as the problem with Empire. As Empire grows it must incorporate foreign peoples, faiths, and languages. These groups then compete against each other for resources and privelege. At some point, the center cannot hold because nobody is really sure what 'the center' means anymore. Jewish intellectuals avoid this truth, they speak around it, distract from it, because it reveals the importance of ethnic nationalism, and the bankruptcy of the MultiCult.
Global warming = Hoax. The earth is warming, not because of us. The carbon levels rise ONLY AFTER the planets temperature increased. Lets all spend money on "green energy" and only make fuel efficient and electric cars! Then we will let the government market global warming to us so they can spend our money on investing into these companies who put them in office. Obama has picked a new company, with conflicts of interest, that will receive government funding to produce windows.
@brandon013714 The only tinfoil hat wearers are those who believe that Al Gore is a messiah and will save the world. He likes to say things like "the debate is over" when clearly it is not. Where is his energy efficient Learjet? No, everyone but him must have windmills in their backyards. Wakeup and stop believing in political douche bags. The earth is warming, yes, are we doing it? NO. If we were, is it the government and the EPA's job to control every aspect of our life, FUCK NO. GO die
@AroundSun There is zero substantive scientific content in your comment.Just because you don't like some of the solutions doesn't mean that the science isn't valid.Go back to the AlexJoneschannel with your stupid bullshit conspiracy theories.
@thatlogicalguy Sure there is, there is plenty of scientists and evidence that he earth warms and cools. Fuck Alex Jones. I don't listen to that stupid bullshit. You buy into fear mongering and think the world is going to end when they have been saying that for years and years and years.
@AroundSun I don't know about years and years, I think the problem is that you think in extremely small timescales and don't realize the magnitude of the problems.In the past we were able to temporarily avoid catastrophes by banning CFC's and various other kinds of government regulation you don't seem to be very fond of.Technology can't solve all problems tho, and especially not this time because of the power of oil,coal,chemical industries etc.
@thatlogicalguy Check out the Earth Observatory website by NASA for more details. "Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity," Abdusamatov told RIA Novosti in an interview.
@AroundSun I'm pretty sure I've heard the opposite from most climate scientists, that solar activity doesn't appear to be a cause of warming and it's not features of Earth's orbit either.Even if somehow roughly 92% of climate scientists were wrong that human activity was the major cause, we could still mitigate it by limiting greenhouse gas emissions.Furthermore some of the other environmental problems have gotten worse and if not for technology most of use would have starved.
@thatlogicalguy It is an interGOVERNMENTAL panel, most are activists not scientists. They are paid to find link between humans and global warming. Any other facts, that many have found, are not allowed and you are not paid for them. Many resigned because they felt that this was a fraud. Their names were maintained on the scientific global warming findings and evidence, they sued to get their names off because they felt it was a hoax. These are not rich men paid off, they are middle class
@thatlogicalguy And I don't mean HOAX as in conspiracy. I just mean that they think there was not enough scientific evidence for SOME the conclusions they come up with. There wasn't enough evidence to make a lot of the links and statements.
I get the points and I think there is some truth in there, but just when it gets interesting, he ends his talk! I want to know what it is that we can do
stop driving car, go by public transport, even better by bycicle or by feet. live close to your activities like school, university, work.
don´t waste energy senseless. use manual shaving. Make the dish by hand. Put off the stand by on the tv, or even better throw it away. you can by second hand clothes or longliving clothes.
Consume less in total. Eat less meat. Buy food from close factorys or farms. Try to avoid import fruits from overseas.
do you think it is more efficient? I am not sure, at least you dont use electric energy. Well, a lot of small step will make a big journey. Don´t feel bad. Talk to others who you know about things like that. spread these/your ideas. Do u play piano?? Go and teach children how to do it. They will spend their time playing than doing something stupid like crusing around with the car....he he
@awesome220 do you know where excactly people speak like this? it interests me after reading that there are enclaves in america, around that area i think, where people still speak elisabethan english.
@sabelmouse Well in Boston, there is a dieing accent called the Brahmin, just search for "boston brahmin accent" on youtube. Diamond's accent is a bit close to this one. And the thing about elisabethean english is just a myth; no one in america spics it.
Great Insight. If we were not such a miss fit species of ape our greed would not so overwhelm what intelligence we do have and the right people with political, economic and procreative power would be heeding this advice.
We are seeing his second generalization (i.e. elites pursue short term interests at expense of long term public interest) play out right now with oil companies and climate change. They're trying to undermine efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas emission that contribute to climate change. Time for us to wake up and take our future back!
His hair is a metaphor for the future of human society - a disaster of pandemic proportions.
I totally agree though. We're doomed. I love it how he says that these are problems of our creation so we should be able to fix them... Wow... That makes me feel so much better. O_o
You wouldn't need a constitution in a society like the Venus project as you wouldn't need the state to supposedly protect what is yours, as you wouldn't own anything and would have access to everything.
Also your constitutional rights are revoked as and when the people in power decide.
On a different note-You have terrorism in Montana? that is what he said inst it?
You wouldn't need a constitution in a society like the Venus project as you wouldn't need the state to supposedly protect what is yours, as you wouldn't own anything and would have access to everything.
Also your constitutional rights are revoked as and when the people in power decide.
On a different note-You have terrorism in Montana? that is what he said isn't it?
Thank you for posting this, TEDtalksDirector.
writersblock26 3 days ago
Jared, you're a great man, and you talk absolute sense, but please sort your hair out.
Nubfalconium 5 days ago
This needs ~6 billion more views.
savageecho 1 week ago 2
I'd love to party with this dude.
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bundawartini 3 weeks ago
almost every major society has collapsed once they have become a multicultural society and loose their founding culture... jared diamond is a jewish supremacist who wants everyone to look away from that fact
scmthrasher 1 month ago
Basically a civilization starts to decline when it gets rich enough and pampered enough to lose sight of the need for ethics and the core values that make its citizens work hard to provide for themselves
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@crudhousefull i agree with you
Talentedtongueoo7 1 month ago
I can't believe he didn't say anything about oil. Is the USA going to occupy the Middle East forever?
NoahSV 2 months ago
Maybe I am an idiot, but I think there is a single explanation for why societies collapse and that is population. Once a population is in overshoot and is bigger than the environment can support, society collapses. Obviously they can collapse for other reasons as well, but this is a way to guarantee collapse.
christo930 3 months ago
@christo930 Yes, just as he stated with the bacteria example.
Superappo 2 months ago
So when we run out of oil are the bastards going to release all the awesome green technology they've been with holding, I really hope so !
youtubfool 4 months ago
@youtubfool The problem is that we are going to need the oil to build the green economy. If we stopped using oil today, 100%, nearly all of our energy production would be used to create more energy production.
christo930 2 months ago
That comb-over IS the solution to our problems.
crackwhen 4 months ago
Jared, fairly straightforward stuff. We, homo sapiens are selfish and will always act as individuals until we need to need to adopt a group behaviour (group dynamics). Every cell in our body is designed to survive.
bmclaughlin01 4 months ago
He is amazing. When i read his books, it never occurred to me that they could be written by someone with such a great comb over. I want his hair :)
bmclaughlin01 4 months ago
how many times do you need to take off and put on your glasses? #comboverswag
Foxrider4564 4 months ago
I find it strange that he equates nation-states with societies in their collapse. The former nation state of yugoslavia collapsed but the societies within it most certainly did not, in fact it was competition and lack of cooperation BETWEEN the various societies within it that caused its collapse.
smile221 4 months ago
you're not fooling anyone dude. be proud of your baldness.
gibbernaught 4 months ago
the comb over
the origional emo fringe
Scoztrix 4 months ago
Godamnit! Now that everyone has mentioned his comb over, I am finding it difficult to focus on what he's actually saying. Thanks a lot guys!
elementz1986 4 months ago
@elementz1986 Hey buddy, we're all in the same boat here. We all came to this site in good faith, but it's difficult to concentrate. Better to read his books,
bmclaughlin01 4 months ago
Today's society will propably collapse not because we will run out of oil, but because we ALREADY cannot pump enough oil out of the ground to meet the demand.
If you want to know more, then please defer to the movie Zeitgeist Addendum, available here on youtube.
Beef1188 4 months ago
USA and the rest of American Continent was conquered by genocidal European mercantile military. Since its Independence from English absolutist Monarchy its been controlled,ruled andmanipulated by FINANCIAL MAFIA of certain FAMILIES. USA has never been a democracy and its so called middle class was relatively better off WORKING MEN AND WOMEN, dont shed crocodile tears for a few sold out working class to MONEY SYSTEM. capitalism is WAGE SLAVERY
arzoyan 4 months ago
Derek Smalls really did something with his life after Spinal Tap disbanded.
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@Qwixzambundu HA HA HA
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@Animalll2003lll POKE (Po Key)
PeeGeeBeeDee 5 months ago
@FabDN41 In Essence.
PeeGeeBeeDee 5 months ago
@FabDN41 Really? I read his book and he seems to make excellent points. Where is one specific example of where he went wrong, do you think?
BigBagsForRent 5 months ago
Sounds like montana is screwed
Ironfistofchaos 5 months ago
Maybe he should give guitar lessons !
MichaelTownpictures 5 months ago
Jared diamond can rock a comb-over and still be a badass.
artisthespoonman 6 months ago 2
Indonesia is Collapsing ? oh I must highly disagree
nouh220200 6 months ago
Carrying capacity overshoot pretty much does sum it all up with one single factor. It is kinda broad subject that summarizes multiple factors but it still is pretty much the main threat these days, and in most of the past scenarios.
FALsecuritysystem762 6 months ago
I have to be pedantic and correct Diamond on his quote of Tolstoy at 7:29:
"...in way, just like Tolstoy's statement about every unhappy marriage being different..."
He's obviously alluding to the famous opening sentence of 'Anna Karenina' which is usually translated in English as something like:
"Happy *families* are all alike; every unhappy *family* is unhappy in its own way".
polymath7 7 months ago
Jared's hair line has collapsed.The comb over is evidence of the mans utter denial of this fact.
MultiJacob17 7 months ago
@MultiJacob17 COLLAPSABLE
PeeGeeBeeDee 5 months ago
Brilliant
mrtradclimber 7 months ago
I read the his book, Collapse. It was an elaboration of his lecture, going deeper into the five point framework.Who cares about his hair, why is our society so impaired with physical attributes and aesthetic appearance. He won a Pulitzer Prize, what have you done, besides criticize people for their appearance? Your mouth is where your judgments end and your actions begin. So you've degraded a Professor and Doctorate, what are You going to do to help society understand anything. Pay attention.
adamsinaz 7 months ago 3
@adamsinaz Did you notice the comb-over?...I did.Its hilarious.And it speaks volumes of the man's vanity.You need to take a chill pill and relax.What are ya,some type of academic groupie?
MultiJacob17 7 months ago
@adamsinaz GROUPIE
PeeGeeBeeDee 5 months ago
eye luv ted!
77GGSS 7 months ago
my professors are full of em selves too
rkhoja 8 months ago
Close your eyes and picture Ray Ramano from Everybody loves Raymond Talking...
schwipesy 8 months ago 2
I think the constant taking off and putting on of glasses is worse than the combover.
TheLiberalSoup 8 months ago
i love how like 30% of comments are about his combover. (including this one)
DirtyMikeballin 8 months ago
His next talk: Why comb-overs collapse.
MrHowToDoIt 8 months ago 33
@MrHowToDoIt hahahahaha
johnnyontube 3 months ago
@MrHowToDoIt LOL!
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I think it may also prove helpful to some of the viewers here to try to evaluate many of the more strident claims of the anti-theist critique ("brights") from a ideological/ metaphysics perspective. Check out the recent article by Jackson Lears in the May 16, 2011 issue of the The Nation entitled "Same Old New Atheism" .The article offers a compelling analysis of Sam Harris' works. Consideration is given to general secular social perspectives
shieldsff 8 months ago
Why did Israel collapse so many years ago sending the tribes out into the world and how can collapsed societies return to the homeland two thousand years later saying it's mine, I want it back?
jackgoldman1 8 months ago
I wanna develop a 5 point framework for when to call someone a cunt
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Jared Diamonds contribution is priceless.
bajaykumar 8 months ago
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bajaykumar 8 months ago
I hate to demean this absolutely brilliant intellectually invigorating talk but that is one EPIC comb over that puts the Trump to shame.
DELPHIIII 9 months ago 48
@DELPHIIII I think it underlines his point.
ncawadias 5 months ago
@DELPHIIII hahaha i seen it and said thought fuck gotta comment on that shit but there were already a few to many
oldmanwina 3 months ago
@DELPHIIII LOFL!
sidDkid87 6 days ago
Jared Diamond is a neo-marxist deterministic pseudo scientist.
Ted continues their tradition of pseudo science, started by allowing that aquatic ape pseudo science theory be presented at their seminars.
Ted is nothing but a joke.
SuperRegisteredUser 9 months ago
Great talk....but damn is that hair ever distracting!
kshackleton 9 months ago
It seems to me that the biggest issue is the personality types who end up in control- these folk are master manipulators hell bent on control and power- until they are removed from their positions I’m not sure what else we can do.
ehpl 9 months ago
I disagree with the global society thing, but still a valid argument.
MrJero85 9 months ago
a fucking racist.
thegill666 9 months ago
Clever guys, but he needs a make-over really badly.
louiseobrien2010 9 months ago
@louiseobrien2010
Yeah... why is it that intelligent, articulate persons, such as Professor Diamond, cannot look into the mirror and see that the uber-comb-over isn't working?
mtszabo 9 months ago
We really need to wake up. At our current rates we are running out of everything in this global society. When we run out of oil the world will collapse and it will not be pleasant. It's time that we design a sustainable society. This may scare some people but look at how far we have come, how much we know, what we can do. We need to use trees only as fast as they grow back, we need to design a system that recycles all of our metals, so that we never have to mine from low yield land. We need...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...to harness energy derived only from quickly renewing geothermal and solar-thermal sources. We need to create a plan for a sustainable population and make it popular to willingly fallow this plan before we force ourselves, through dictatorship, to kill ourselves. There are so many problems and the only way to solve them is through the science based governance of technocracy, but that's just my opinion, who else has a plan?
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
Oh, and I completely agree with you. Science is the way out of this mess, not more political rhetoric.
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo Do your research too. Technocracy is undemocratic, officials aren't elected but are appointed on the basis of being measured as having the highest levels of competency in the necessary fields of expertise. Sort of how you get a high paying job today. I believe that if enough people find their leaders unpopular then they should be able to impeach them (society shouldn't have to submit to tyrants), but putting our leaders up there should be an objective process.
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
Absolutely. We keep electing people that are dumber than we are, and wonder why nothing productive ever happens. The problem I can see with Technocracy, from a cursory glance, is: Who's doing the appointing? Is there one corruptible person at the top, or are the uneducated masses in charge, or would it be more of a quorum? Of course, there's also the problem of, how do you convince those same masses that completely changing the government is a good idea?
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo The only way the masses will ever change government if their current situation is exceptionally dire, which is why Technocracy got it's moment in the spotlight during the great depression. If the government survives and it's people thrive then it is doing a good job, if it has created a sustainable society, one that doesn't depend on an increasing rate of consumption, it is doing a great job because it is actually thinking into the future. No society has ever been very concerned...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...with thinking of keeping the prosperity that it experiences in the present, guaranteeing it's presence into an indefinite future. And now we have procrastinated so long that we have nearly hit peak oil, the basis of most of our prosperity, and are not looking very hard for mass producing alternatives to this. Technocracy will solve the problems (I think) that the free market can't (until it is too late). Technocracy is basically an oligarchy where those in power obtain...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...their positions by proving that they are the most intelligent and skilled candidates who have applied (no one will be forced into the government). a super majority popular vote of the people could impeach one of these leaders but no one could elect a new one, a scientific process would elect the new one. The government would also have very minimal power over you, it's only purpose is to efficiently distribute the goods and services that would make us happy and healthy...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...It wouldn't even recognize marriage because it does not even deal in that sort of capacity. You can fuck whomever and have a baby and that baby is independent once it is able to be. There is also no money as we know it. Everyone is issued an energy certificate and it basically guarantees you an access to so many goods and services per year whose cost is based on the energy needed to provide such goods and services. It's hard to summarize it in a comment.
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
Fascinating concept, and one that will prove useful once the economy finally craps out. I'll definitely research this in more detail.
mtszabo 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
We need to figure out how to split water into hydrogen and oxygen efficiently, thereby allowing us to use it as fuel. That's the ultimate in renewable energy. You burn it and you get water vapor, which then turns back into water. If you can collect it and re-use it without releasing it, you could potentially have a vehicle that never runs out of fuel.
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo What are you talking about? When hydrogen and oxygen combine into oxygen it is an exothermic reaction and when you separate the hydrogen and oxygen in water, back into H2 and O2 then that is an endothermic reaction! That means that, by definition, it takes at least as much energy to turn water into H2 and O2, as it takes H2 and O2 to turn into water. if you think you can do it go ahead, but you'll have a better chance at creating a working version of M.C. Escher's waterfall.
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto Finding ever more efficient ways to do this endothermic reaction is a valuable asset since we still use such an exothermic reaction to produce commercial H2 and O2 for products such as rocket fue But keep in mind: 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O is the chemical reaction that fuels rocket propulsion, but it takes more electrical energy to create that H2 and O2 then is generated in those famously powerful rocket explosions. You will never generate more energy in the exothermic reaction...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto then you will put into the endothermic reaction, in fact, the efficiency is less than 50%, it took tons more energy in the form of sunlight and geothermal tides and plate tectonics to make all of the oil that has ever existed, then we will ever make use of by using it. You need to go back to high school chemistry if you don't understand this.
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
That's exactly my point. If we can figure out how to break the H₂O bond without it taking more energy than would be released in the burning of the resulting Brown's Gas as fuel, we would have an endless renewable fuel source. I didn't say I had the answer! Just that it would be the ultimate renewable energy source, considering that the planet is ⅔ water. Clearly, using electrolysis is -not- the way to go (which is why I stressed the need for efficiency in my original post.)
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo This is physically impossible! the same thing could be said for salt! If you could produce more energy by combining Sodium and Chlorine (don't try this at home, unless you have the chemical experience btw), then you could by separating salt into Sodium and Chlorine then you will have solved the worlds energy crisis forever! The problem is that it takes at least as much energy to reconvert products of an exothermic reaction in an endothermic reaction, but if some of that energy is...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...going away in the form of propulsion, in, say a motor, as well as most of it being lost to friction, all going to entropy (all energy goes from usable energy to unusable energy, basically) then not even half of the exothermic energy is going to turn around and perpetuate the cycle of creating new fuel. If what you are saying is true, batteries would never die and would never have to be charged.
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
It's physically impossible with current technology, yes. (Salt would be impracticable for use in a motor because the waste product would crystallize, whereas burning 2H2 and O2 results in water vapor as an exhaust product.) Like I said, the trick here is coming up with an efficient method of splitting the bond. I saw something promising a few years back using radio waves, but admittedly I haven't really followed up on it.
mtszabo 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
I know it's been a week, but I just came across this video: watch?v=SFW0TEFKCxk
This is the type of thing I was talking about regarding splitting H₂O efficiently and turning it into fuel.
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo Well if you are talking about genetically engineering organisms (or viruses) into taking energy from the sun and turning it into calories then of course we should always opt for the best available fuel available. Water turning into gas is practical because there is so much water. But you do get how this is ultimately solar power right?
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
Ultimately, yes... but if you're going to look at it that way, the electric cars we have now are ultimately fossil-fuel-based, since the power companies primarily burn fossil fuels to produce electricity... So, any technology that can convert water into fuel is a major step in the right direction. The bit in the video about the high-efficiency batteries is also something we need badly. I'm just glad to see people working on such things....
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo I know. I get the fact that electricity is not an energy source, but the way that you presented your case for water as fuel didn't sound like you actually got that water is not an energy source but that it is a medium through which energy could be aquired. before that TED talk about genetically engineered viruses that made bacteria who could generate mass amounts of H2 and O2 per unit of time (the things to consider about ways of generating energy are: How much energy do you generate...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...from this method? How quickly can we generate it? How much energy and resources are needed to create this generator and how long will it last [how much does it cost to find and obtain the oil itself? for example]? And, how sustainable is this method?) I would never have thought that endothermic 2H20 > 2H2 + O2 would ever be a possible candidate for a medium of energy generation, but now I do. Gas > Water potential is a pollution free method of energy storage, so if there...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...is a way to generate a lot of energy from the environment and get it into this form then go for it. You basically deserve 1,000 Nobel prizes if such a thing works.
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
Per your profile, you're 19 at the present time, yes? If so, I do hope you're majoring in some form of Science, because you seem to be well-above average intelligence. It's going to be your generation that builds on work such as this and obtains those 1000 Nobel prizes....
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo I consider my self above average intelligence, and I feel that that is a sad representation of America. I'm not majoring in science, I'm probably going to drop out of college, where I'm going I no longer feel I need to pay an institution money to give me a certificate of intelligence, although I feel personally motivated by my interest in the world to study and get smarter. If I feel the need to get a degree I'll go back but I don't feel like I'll change the world. I do, however...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...feel like this is a pivotal point in human history because of many issues but at the base of it all, in my view, is simply the mundane issue of our access to extraneous energy. If this is not solved we're fucked
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
Yes... you sound a lot like me at your age. I also dropped out, for similar reasons. I must say, I do regret that decision now. Think long and hard before you do the same.
You're correct about this being a pivotal point in human history, but it's definitely solvable. We need, as a people, to give up on greed and focus on creating a better world for future generations. The forefathers of this country knew this, but somehow, the banks managed to take over anyhow...
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo I don't think I'm in far enough for it to matter. I don't want the burden of huge school depts hanging over me. College can be just as much of a bad thing as a good one monetary wise. The forefathers of our country were incredibly fallible men and I would consider many of them to have very bad morals by today's standards. I don't really look at the founding fathers as being any more iconic than the icons of today. They enjoy big fish fame, and in a hundred years, so will today's icons.
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto
I made the same rationalizations for dropping out. The older you get, the harder it is to go back.
Your views of the founding fathers may or may not be accurate; nonetheless, one of the things to which they were adamantly opposed was centralized banking. Check out "The Creature From Jekyll Island."
mtszabo 9 months ago
@mtszabo DROP OUT
PeeGeeBeeDee 5 months ago
@PeeGeeBeeDee
So... you got home from the bar last night, drunk as shit, and decided that channel-spamming sounded like a good idea?
mtszabo 5 months ago
@mtszabo Is That What That's Called? Spamming? Writing A Bunch Of Comments? Thank You For Informing ME. I Don't Do Internet Lingo Or Technology Talk.
PeeGeeBeeDee 5 months ago
@PeeGeeBeeDee
Well, then, to further your education: Channel Spamming can be defined as, "Writing a multitude of comments across a specific channel with the express intent of being a complete and total douchebag." In your case, Mission Accomplished.
mtszabo 5 months ago
@mtszabo Yes, Accomplished!
PeeGeeBeeDee 5 months ago
Very good, especially being said in 2003, seemingly way more obviously relevant in 2011
LostHemingway 9 months ago
what the fuck accent is that yo. ive been trying to figure it out for years
Pwnialstrasz 10 months ago
@Pwnialstrasz
New England. Probably Massachusetts, maybe New Hampshire...
mtszabo 9 months ago
His checklist doesnt cover 10% of societal collapses -_-
WickerVideos 10 months ago
Just read Guns, germs and steel ...very compelling and persausive book. Eye opening.
misterMagoo4 10 months ago
Just read Guns, germs and steel ...very compelling and persausive book. Eye opening.
misterMagoo4 10 months ago
He must only possess awareness on a large scale such as whole societies. On a smaller scale such as self-awareness it appears he does not. Or else he would realize how silly he looks and how he isn't fooling anyone.
Braincandy123 10 months ago
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Braincandy123 10 months ago
Incredible comb-over. Very subtle.
Muso992 10 months ago 37
@Muso992 holy shit i never even noticed!
tyanth12 7 months ago
@Muso992 LMAO!
Prolific85 4 months ago
If our society collapses it will be largely due to the widespread confusion of primary institutions focusing our whole civilization on phantom wealth as opposed to real wealth.Money is a commodity fiction and to steer our society by its abstract indicators is a massive delusion.Money is not wealth.
summondadrummin 11 months ago
Wow - that's the WORST EXAMPLE OF A COMBOVER I've seen in a long time! Even worse, a DYED combover!
psammiad 11 months ago
I have to come back and watch this talk every once in a while simply because it is science at its best, so accessible, elegant and logical. Is anyone iistening?
justgivemethetruth 11 months ago
Australians should stop being Australians? Allowing Miconesia and Indonesia to overwhelm them will preserve their society? Diversity is one element in the collapse of society that is too unPC for this lecturer to touch. Accomodating diverse populations taxes the resources of any society and feeds a collapse, regardless to phrases such as "Diversity is our Strength."
deaddoc 11 months ago 3
Sorry, he is wrong about Yugoslavia. The society did not collapse. I am American but I lived there in the 1990s. Yugoslavia was a short lived union of south Slavic (yugo=south) nations that already existed. They had old cultures and societies that have survived the collapse of Yugoslavia, although the Orthodox Christian culture of Kosovo was wiped out by the Albanians. To our shame, NATO and the US assisted an Islamic takeover in Kosovo. Today, a Muslim from Kosovo killed two USAF and 2+.
deaddoc 11 months ago 2
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deaddoc 11 months ago
Holy Comb-over Batman!
octobot 11 months ago 2
Around 7:00, he starts with the bootlicking.
Goodbye.
irritablearchitect 11 months ago
Civilisational collapse, is better understood as the problem with Empire. As Empire grows it must incorporate foreign peoples, faiths, and languages. These groups then compete against each other for resources and privelege. At some point, the center cannot hold because nobody is really sure what 'the center' means anymore. Jewish intellectuals avoid this truth, they speak around it, distract from it, because it reveals the importance of ethnic nationalism, and the bankruptcy of the MultiCult.
jy768 11 months ago
Global warming = Hoax. The earth is warming, not because of us. The carbon levels rise ONLY AFTER the planets temperature increased. Lets all spend money on "green energy" and only make fuel efficient and electric cars! Then we will let the government market global warming to us so they can spend our money on investing into these companies who put them in office. Obama has picked a new company, with conflicts of interest, that will receive government funding to produce windows.
AroundSun 11 months ago
@AroundSun lol and you wear a tinfoil hat too?
brandon013714 11 months ago
@brandon013714 The only tinfoil hat wearers are those who believe that Al Gore is a messiah and will save the world. He likes to say things like "the debate is over" when clearly it is not. Where is his energy efficient Learjet? No, everyone but him must have windmills in their backyards. Wakeup and stop believing in political douche bags. The earth is warming, yes, are we doing it? NO. If we were, is it the government and the EPA's job to control every aspect of our life, FUCK NO. GO die
AroundSun 11 months ago
@AroundSun There is zero substantive scientific content in your comment.Just because you don't like some of the solutions doesn't mean that the science isn't valid.Go back to the AlexJoneschannel with your stupid bullshit conspiracy theories.
thatlogicalguy 11 months ago
@thatlogicalguy Sure there is, there is plenty of scientists and evidence that he earth warms and cools. Fuck Alex Jones. I don't listen to that stupid bullshit. You buy into fear mongering and think the world is going to end when they have been saying that for years and years and years.
AroundSun 11 months ago
@AroundSun I don't know about years and years, I think the problem is that you think in extremely small timescales and don't realize the magnitude of the problems.In the past we were able to temporarily avoid catastrophes by banning CFC's and various other kinds of government regulation you don't seem to be very fond of.Technology can't solve all problems tho, and especially not this time because of the power of oil,coal,chemical industries etc.
thatlogicalguy 11 months ago
@thatlogicalguy Check out the Earth Observatory website by NASA for more details. "Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity," Abdusamatov told RIA Novosti in an interview.
AroundSun 11 months ago
@AroundSun I'm pretty sure I've heard the opposite from most climate scientists, that solar activity doesn't appear to be a cause of warming and it's not features of Earth's orbit either.Even if somehow roughly 92% of climate scientists were wrong that human activity was the major cause, we could still mitigate it by limiting greenhouse gas emissions.Furthermore some of the other environmental problems have gotten worse and if not for technology most of use would have starved.
thatlogicalguy 11 months ago
@thatlogicalguy It is an interGOVERNMENTAL panel, most are activists not scientists. They are paid to find link between humans and global warming. Any other facts, that many have found, are not allowed and you are not paid for them. Many resigned because they felt that this was a fraud. Their names were maintained on the scientific global warming findings and evidence, they sued to get their names off because they felt it was a hoax. These are not rich men paid off, they are middle class
AroundSun 11 months ago
@AroundSun That's not true the IPCC has lots of scientists and nearly every major scientific institution accepts AGW.
thatlogicalguy 11 months ago
@thatlogicalguy And I don't mean HOAX as in conspiracy. I just mean that they think there was not enough scientific evidence for SOME the conclusions they come up with. There wasn't enough evidence to make a lot of the links and statements.
AroundSun 11 months ago
I love how he keeps putting his glasses on then taking them off right after.
Screwball55 11 months ago
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zinkerled 1 year ago
@zinkerled
My British History prof has a comb-over and he's awesome, therefore your point is moot!
Screwball55 11 months ago
BEST COMBOVER!!!
alistairq88 1 year ago
So what can we do? What can I do?
I get the points and I think there is some truth in there, but just when it gets interesting, he ends his talk! I want to know what it is that we can do
Pianofy 1 year ago
@Pianofy i agree, at least give us some links to search our selfes
Despotailustrado 11 months ago
@Pianofy
you can think for example :-)
stop driving car, go by public transport, even better by bycicle or by feet. live close to your activities like school, university, work.
don´t waste energy senseless. use manual shaving. Make the dish by hand. Put off the stand by on the tv, or even better throw it away. you can by second hand clothes or longliving clothes.
Consume less in total. Eat less meat. Buy food from close factorys or farms. Try to avoid import fruits from overseas.
cospaa 11 months ago
@cospaa Great advice ofcourse. But I do most of those things! Also a dish washer is usually more efficient than washing by hand!
But doing those things all feel so... small. I want to do bigger things. But I'm not a smart scientists, and I'm not good at politics. Is there more?
Pianofy 11 months ago
@Pianofy
do you think it is more efficient? I am not sure, at least you dont use electric energy. Well, a lot of small step will make a big journey. Don´t feel bad. Talk to others who you know about things like that. spread these/your ideas. Do u play piano?? Go and teach children how to do it. They will spend their time playing than doing something stupid like crusing around with the car....he he
do you live car-free? Is it easy possible in US??
and don´t forget.....relax....
cospaa 11 months ago
I'm reading collapse right now...good stuff.
Ishbu101 1 year ago
nice comb over dude.
glimmer2158 1 year ago
Someone please give this man a freakn haircut.
kick08ful 1 year ago
i really can't understand people who are hesitant to shave their hads after they go horrible semi-bold like this.
but hair aside - the book was OK, this lecture, not so much..
bizarrejapan 1 year ago
Why societies collapse?
because we have people like Marxist Jared Diamond as "intellectuals".
This is not serious AT ALL.
MrBananito5 1 year ago
I hope he's as crazy as he looks.
campbpar 1 year ago
I know its wrong but his hair is as compelling as his subject matter.He's dead on though,we got problems..
Elohelm 1 year ago
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oh please, this is veiled environmental marxism, not a serious analysis.
Tallaias 1 year ago
Good man!
Veit81 1 year ago
somebody should count how many times he takes off his glasses and puts them back on. LOL
will5will 1 year ago
Where is he from?
awesome220 1 year ago
@awesome220 boston, mass. weird accent huh?
sabelmouse 1 year ago
@sabelmouse oh, it is boston. thanks
awesome220 1 year ago
@sabelmouse b ut this is not the standard boston accent. but it is boston accent
awesome220 1 year ago
@awesome220 do you know where excactly people speak like this? it interests me after reading that there are enclaves in america, around that area i think, where people still speak elisabethan english.
sabelmouse 1 year ago
@sabelmouse Well in Boston, there is a dieing accent called the Brahmin, just search for "boston brahmin accent" on youtube. Diamond's accent is a bit close to this one. And the thing about elisabethean english is just a myth; no one in america spics it.
awesome220 1 year ago
@awesome220 ok thanks.
sabelmouse 1 year ago
Great Insight. If we were not such a miss fit species of ape our greed would not so overwhelm what intelligence we do have and the right people with political, economic and procreative power would be heeding this advice.
wallacewithoutgromit 1 year ago
We are seeing his second generalization (i.e. elites pursue short term interests at expense of long term public interest) play out right now with oil companies and climate change. They're trying to undermine efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas emission that contribute to climate change. Time for us to wake up and take our future back!
plantedcity 1 year ago 27
His hair is a metaphor for the future of human society - a disaster of pandemic proportions.
I totally agree though. We're doomed. I love it how he says that these are problems of our creation so we should be able to fix them... Wow... That makes me feel so much better. O_o
poshko41 1 year ago
This man is a Marxist.
WhiteWhite1492 1 year ago
@WhiteWhite1492 cool
hairyhoff 1 year ago
@WhiteWhite1492 And, where's the problem?
Veit81 1 year ago
check out THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT and THE VENUS PROJECT.
it might be our last hope.
ZMisrael 1 year ago
@ZMisrael a socialist society is not the answer... the venus project is a "resourced" based socialist society. We need to keep our constitution!
YODUNNY 1 year ago
@YODUNNY
You wouldn't need a constitution in a society like the Venus project as you wouldn't need the state to supposedly protect what is yours, as you wouldn't own anything and would have access to everything.
Also your constitutional rights are revoked as and when the people in power decide.
On a different note-You have terrorism in Montana? that is what he said inst it?
lokidj01 1 year ago
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@YODUNNY
You wouldn't need a constitution in a society like the Venus project as you wouldn't need the state to supposedly protect what is yours, as you wouldn't own anything and would have access to everything.
Also your constitutional rights are revoked as and when the people in power decide.
On a different note-You have terrorism in Montana? that is what he said isn't it?
lokidj01 1 year ago
Boston.
FernieSkier 1 year ago
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lol, environmentalist posing as an ac