One of my favorite quotes is particularly apt here and, as for Arnold, gives me cause for hope if not optimism: "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand
This is incredibly similar to a recent short book by Andrew Potter that you might enjoy, if that's the word. It's called "On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever"
One of my favorite quotes is particularly apt here and, as for Arnold, gives me cause for hope if not optimism: "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand
This is incredibly similar to a recent short book by Andrew Potter that you might enjoy, if that's the word. It's called "On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever"
Are there book like Marcus Follin's Introduction to Magic, or maybe Principia Discordia that are more fun on the magical side of things?
My theory is brutal- societies die off because they become too stupid to survive. We are too stupid to survive.