Update

In the last blog, I said ‘The decline of the West, and the rest”.

I say this because the culture that is in decline is the West, both culturally and environmentally. And possibly through conflict as well.

Spengler mapped us onto all other great historical civilizations, and showed we all go up, then strangle ourselves to death, a natural result of power and gluttony gone all haywire and useless. It’s like a cancer that can’t be avoided.

The difference with us is that we’re going to take the whole species with us, and many other species.

So in terms of the human species, we’re the last civilization.

The cockroaches and other surviving bugs might start all over again. Come back in a billion years, who knows, we may be back in some form.

After all, convergent evolution suggests that we can’t be avoided. Maybe we’ve been around before as well!