{"id":33141,"date":"2018-04-05T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33141"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:32:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:32:51","slug":"how-to-recognize-when-your-society-is-suffering-a-dramatic-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33141","title":{"rendered":"How To Recognize When Your Society Is Suffering A Dramatic Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

How To Recognize When Your Society Is Suffering A Dramatic Decline<\/a><\/h3>\n
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When historians and analysts look at the factors surrounding the collapse of a society, they often focus on the larger events and indicators \u2014 the moments of infamy. However, I think it\u2019s important to consider the reality that large scale societal decline is built upon a mixture of elements, prominent as well as small. Collapse is a process, not a singular event. It happens over time, not overnight. It is a spectrum of moments and terrible choices, set in motion in most cases by people in positions of power, but helped along by useful idiots among the masses. The decline of a nation or civilization requires the complicity of a host of saboteurs.<\/p>\n

So, instead of focusing on the top down approach, which is rather common, let\u2019s start from the foundations of our culture to better understand why there is clear and definable destabilization.<\/p>\n

Declining Moral Compass<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is always a conflict between personal gain and personal conscience \u2014 this is the nature of being human. But in a stable society, these two things tend to balance out. Not so during societal decline, as personal gain (and even personal comfort and gratification) tends to greatly outweigh the checks and balances of moral principles.<\/p>\n

People often mistake the term \u201cmorality\u201d to be a religious creation, but this is not what I am necessarily referring to. The concepts of \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d are archetypal \u2014 that is to say they are psychologically inherent in most human beings from the moment of birth. This is not a matter of faith, but a matter of fact, observed by those in the field of psychology and anthropology over the course of a century of study.\u00a0 How we relate to these concepts can be affected by our environment and upbringing, but for the most part, our moral compass is psychologically ingrained. It is up to us to either follow it or not follow it.<\/p>\n

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How To Recognize When Your Society Is Suffering A Dramatic Decline When historians and analysts look at the factors surrounding the collapse of a society, they often focus on the larger events and indicators \u2014 the moments of infamy. However, I think it\u2019s important to consider the reality that large scale societal decline is built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6703,5993,8328,1266,17860,736],"class_list":["post-33141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-alt-market","tag-brandon-smith","tag-morality","tag-social-collapse","tag-social-decline","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33142,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33141\/revisions\/33142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}