civilization

Social Contract

There is something called a social contract. When you’re born into a society that’s a civilization with adequate governance, you are immediately awarded with your society’s social contract. Each person has a set of responsibilities to uphold to be part of the society, while at the same time being automatically assured that they will have available to them the features of a society to live in that is tolerable. When that breaks, chaos begins to break things up, and they usually end up coalescing into a somewhat different society with a different government that must offer a sufficient social contract to stave off being broken up by chaos.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Glass heroes

Civilization is the infrastructure that you and I use to live. At all. Everything we end up doing leans on civilization to assist it. Civilization is strong and fundamental, and lovable, even where society can seem confusing and even frustrating at times. Fitting into civilization such that you feel justifiably valued and such that you feel the value in things helps create real contentment.

Who shows us how to do that? Anyone can. Is that what makes a hero in times of peace? And they’ll uphold civilization if and when the time comes?

Some people want to admire characters in fiction because fiction gives us catharsis. We can really feel the value there quickly, but it’s emotional. Most fictional stories aren’t object lessons, and most characters don’t necessarily do the right things. Characters in fiction are usually built around stories, and they’re used to maximize and flamboyantly resolve conflict in stories.

A real life that’s a good true story to live out takes a long time to build, and we build it conscientiously, so that the person at the center of it is worth knowing.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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On Golden Ages

Historically speaking, a Golden Age is a period of time where a society has a lot of extremely rapid and surprising growth and expansion happen at civilization levels, technological levels, cultural levels, etc. There’s good leadership, there’s good art, and there’s often timeless architecture. Everything kind of clicks, and people end up having a very stable and prosperous time, and everyone ends up remembering them as a successful society and admitting that there was quite an enormous amount to admire.

It is very desirable to get caught up in one of these Golden Ages, has been the general consensus.

Golden Ages have an alchemical element, and they expand that way. They start with good and inspired leadership. If we can get the world’s leaders righteous and happy and breathing alchemy, theoretically the world’s existing societies can start having new Golden Ages emerge.

A 21st Century Golden Age is highly possible for us. Theoretically, it’s waiting there on the other side of the Apocalypse, as long as we can exit the Apocalypse properly.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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War with terror.

Terrorists usually don’t bother to declare war. We are currently at war with terrorism. It’s outright war between civilization and terrorism, and the terrorists started it. They have declared war on all of us without an official declaration. It’s happening now. Terrorists have been attacking civilization itself at every level, destabilizing crucial parts of society and corrupting what they can, and things have started falling apart. The current terrorist threat tends to be people who have been radicalized online, but still rely on civilization for all their comforts. They shouldn’t want to win this war, but they’ve demonstrated a puzzling willingness to destroy everything if they’re allowed to do so. If civilization doesn’t put up enough of a fight, there’s no assurance that we’ll be able to keep civilization going.

This isn’t exactly a war on terror anymore. A war on a social evil suggests prevention. There’s little time to waste now. We are at a point of crisis, and various terrorist groups have been gaining ground over the last few years. This is (mostly domestic) terrorism as a serious existential threat to civilization itself. The problem could be addressed through systematic and orthodox means, focusing on solving the crimes involved, punishing the offenders, and rooting out all the digital crime nests that the terrorists are using to coordinate their crimes.

There’s reason to believe that many terrorist groups do not openly admit to being terrorists. They may even point out statements made at one point or another or various historical theories as faux evidence that they are not terrorists. Indeed, they do not necessarily self-identify as terrorists, per se, but self-identification is not the standard here. It is terrorist crimes that define a terrorist.

In some places it has come to violence in the streets now, decent people vs. terrorists. Civilization and decency must be saved; they must fight back, as they have in earlier generations. Don’t embrace terrorism. Don’t accept it. The human spirit can do no worse with itself than to slip into terrorism and terroristic crimes and other criminal tantrums. Terrorism is a paradigm of endless war, and the most pointless kind of war at that.

We didn’t start this. It can end, though. End it now.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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