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Point is, yeah, we have the technology necessary to solve our problems but our leadership doesn't want them solved, they want to take advantage of them to beggar everyone but themselves so they can rule forever.

At what expense relative to gas? How about rocket fuel for orbital launches? The gap between the haves and the have-nots is unfathomably bigger. Say what you will about our unsustainable society of now, but it's a society that puts an iPhone in every hand and a car under every ass. What do...

The question is, how the fuck do you build a fission reactor without using any oil-driven ICEs at any state of the construction or supply chain? Sure we could solve the problem if we build them now, but we're actively not doing so. For that matter, how do you solve the problem if civilization's...

What we can probably all agree on is that the modern status quo has failed at the most basic level of perpetuating itself. Technological infrastructure is terminally dependent upon finite resources which are being rapidly expended, once we run out of oil and rare earth ores, civilization...

Alternatehistory forum is way ahead of you. But seriously, no, Confucianism failed quite spectacularly. Turns out, sabotaging your own technological development so your leadership can maintain control over your civilization is a really bad idea if your civilization isn't universal and your...