Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "" video.

  1. HOW CIVILISATIONS COLLAPSE - AN EXAMPLE Lets take the Khmer civilisation in Cambodia that built Angkor Wat etc. in simple terms that civilisation failed cos of a flood, the flood demolished their water management system, it demolished it cos they had systematically under-invested in its maintenance for centuries, and they could not rebuild it cos the people with the knowledge of how to do it had died off cos they had not invested in maintenance, so the corps failed and the canals silted up, causing further flooding and further crop failures... So this one failure built on its self and became unfixable and rapidly caused other systems to collapse. People could not pay their taxes, there was a food shortage, there was civil unrest, other infrastructure stopped getting maintained so that collapsed, bridges across waterways collapsed fragmenting the civilisation and stopping the transport of goods... People STOPED believing in government and in paying taxes and stoped doing what the government tells them - if the government cant keep the water flowing and the harvests coming - why pay taxes, that's their job, the food is scarce, keep it for yourself. They started to rob out stones from municipal structures to maintain their own, to protect what they had. Further destroying the communal tructures. Eventually, a once-great civilisation was reduced to subsistence farmers on their own little patch of land. When these cascading failures are SYSTEMIC due to years of poor governance and they are deeply interconnected - it is incredibly dangerous for a civilisation. The effects ripple out through society collapsing one system after another and nothing can be fixed cos something else is broken, or it directly opposes the political belief system that keeps the powerful in power. Ultimately EVERY civilisation is brought down by a cascading systems failure. It would be difficult to imagine a more perfect example of a Cascading Intercinected Systems Failure than the UK in 2021. EDIT: Sorry for the terrible writing, just woke up from a nap - well it is Sunday...
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  2.  @bobjohnbowles  - Yep. Here is a list of factors that contribute to civilization collapse that I came up with for my book. Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race N Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation N I would say that nearly 50% of these could be summarized as "Hollowed out by systemic corruption"
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  3.  @polliebain7450  - Yeah - it terrifies me. If we don't get Bojo out of office in the next couple of years and someone in who is repaired to actually fix problems - even if its a horrible Tory fix - then I genuinely think the UK will collapse, and I don't mean economic collapse - is mean Yougoslavia 1992 with fewer guns... I have to do meditation and yoga to keep ontop of the stress this is causing me.
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  4.  @petermoxham2625  - YES in the UK and the USA the problem goes back to 1980.
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