For the last three years, Wilson has been researching and writing a book on systems collapse, the first chapter of which is called Hope – about “how there is no hope, and we need to face this”.
Well,.yes :) as Nathan Rees opined, all we can do is endure
I thought tbis interesting
Wilson moved to Paris two years ago on an artist’s visa to work on her book. The topic of collapsology is one the French are “really on top of” – collapse experts there do morning TV, and books on the subject top bestseller charts, making it a more fitting place to get to work than Sydney. “It’s a topic that I would say Australians are just not alive to yet,” she sighs.
“In short: every single – “every single, without exception” – complex civilisation from the Roman and Maya empires to Easter Island, ends up collapsing, generally within 250 to 300 years.” This is complete bs, even using the loosest definition of collapse. Rome’s institutions lasted literally 2000 years, from the founding of the republic in 500s bce to 1453 when the Ottomans conquered the Byzantines. And even then, the peoples and cultures persisted under a different king. Even if we’re talking unbroken lines of succession/government, Venice managed over 1000 years as a republic with only a few failed coup attempts.