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[–]EternalSunset[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Ever saw that meme saying 'Hard times create hard men, hard men create good times, good times create soft men.'? It's basically the simplified version of the cyclical civilization theory originally formulated by Ibn Khaldun.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If the peak of that cycle is opulence than the goal should be to stop the cycle at the top. Maximize opulence. Embrace the gayness as a natural regulator to run away population growth.

[–]EternalSunset[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Once you have weak men you just get steamrolled by the nearest civilization which still produces more war-like men. This is an actual event that repeated itself dozens of times throughout history; greeks and romans, romans and visigoths, visigoths and moors, the turkic invasions, the mongol invasions, the hum invasions, the timurids, etc... Men exist to be hard, else we wouldn't exist and humans would be hermaphrodites like earthworms.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just more proof we live in hell.