Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Will Civilization Collapse?" video.

  1. I think societies breakdown when they trade liberty for security and comfort. The Roman Republic gave way to Empire. Most say the Empire at its height was the zenith of Roman civilization but really, the day the republic caved and allowed Caesar to become a dictator marked the end of that society. Virtue and an altruistic sense of civic responsibility are the markers of a healthy society. When those give way, it's only a matter of time before some form of tyranny sets in. For the west, it will be globalism delivered in the form of corporatism. The unholy alliance between commerce and government is already in place. I'm not talking some form of exploitation via Marxism, it's really more of a Randian dystopia taking root, the kind she detailed in Atlas Shrugged. We have shown the globalists we can be easily sacred and led pretty much any place they want to take us. To borrow from Bernadette Peters in the movie The Jerk, you can have the money, just don't take the stuff. Anyway, that's how I see it. By the next decade we will have digital currencies and social credit scores on a global scale. Civilizations don't collapse, they evolve. They move from freedom to slavery and back again. The American Experiment had a nice run. Franklin said we had a republic if we could keep it and for a time we did. But now more and more people are saying they don't want it. We are becoming atomized and isolated even as we become more interdependent. The great paradox of the digital age. All hail the experts, our new overlords. To be honest, I'm glad I'm on the back end of the journey because the future on this rock is coming to an end. Get right with your Creator while you still can. That's my advice.
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