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The chilling fact is that functionally, the West will turn into a place akin to this forum. I say this since this place is a Western-dominated forum and you see the same megatrends underlying Western civilization.
But if the trend continues with this forum, I have already predicted in this thread
looksmax.org
That people will start to leave slowly and the rate will pick up as the amount of active users dwindle until only the most mentally deranged people stay (a few dozen), even they may leave. During the decline, @Master will struggle to keep the site on as the amount of active users dwindle. He will have some days where teh forum is offline since he can only afford to keep it up for 5 days for example... then 4, then 3... until looksmax.org has to be officially archived or put offline forever.
So too, the west (particuarly Europe) may struggle with declining educational performance, decline in creativity, increase in median age and non-existent birth rates, rampant mental health crisises, death of Western (particularly European) intellectual inventiveness, infrastructure decline, and so much more. People may wish to immigrate to better juristictions (ex. Dubai or new city-state like places like Starbase, Texas) until the West is dead.
America could bifrucate from Europe and become its own civilization.
If Europe wants to stay relevant, it would need to reinvent itself, deeply. It can't cling to the past, since we don't live in between 1500-1900
Resources for further exploration
(published in 1918) -> The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/72344/72344-h/72344-h.htm
GPT summary:
The author compares the decline of Western civilization, particularly in Europe, to the decay of a Western-dominated online forum. Both are experiencing institutional collapse, with a decline in important structures like marriage, family, education, and governance in the West, mirrored by the forum's failure in moderation, intellectual activity, and community health and poor speech and conduct (the user complains about people commonly telling others to kill themselves, and dismissing people's hard work using "DNRD" aka did not read). This will ultimately lead to the death of looksmax.org and the death of the West respectively.
The author predicts that, much like the forum's active user base will shrink until only a few remain over the course in the short-medium term future (3-7 years), Western societies may deteriorate further, facing issues like economic stagnation, irrelevance, descent from hegemony, crime, loneliness, and a lack of intellectual and creative innovation. The rise of alternative jurisdictions like Dubai, digital community camps across the world, or Starbase, Texas, may prompt people to leave the West, just like people will migrate sway from the forum to other online communities or live in physical reality.
The author suggests that for Europe to remain relevant, it must reinvent itself, abandoning outdated models and adapting to new realities, much like how America could potentially separate from Europe and form its own distinct civilization. The reference to The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler encourages further exploration of these themes.
- Just as the forum is experiencing a horrifying decline in its institutions (moderation staff, implementation of suggestions, our intellectual institution of BOTB), the West (particularly Europe) is experiencing a decline in institutions (marriage, family, education, civil services, government, etc.) just like the forum is on
- Just as there are NO BOTB-worthy threads or intellectual work being done on this forum... so too the West (specifically Europe) is basically intellectually and economically dead.
- Just as bad speech and conduct (telling people to kill themselves, spamming DNRD, or nobody cares) is ravaging the forum and all of its consequences on intellectual work and mental health... so too the West is experiencing an increase in crime, lonelinessness, lack of innovation, decaying infrastructure, etc.
But if the trend continues with this forum, I have already predicted in this thread
A VERY DEEP, HIGH EFFORT ANALYSIS INTO THE FUTURE OF LOOKSMAX.ORG
Thread music: According to Oswald Spengler, a civilization starts off like this. Ethnogenesis, a new ethnicity is created. These people share similar genetic, cultural, linguistic and environmental material and create a story about how they're one people. Often this forms in response to an...
looksmax.org
That people will start to leave slowly and the rate will pick up as the amount of active users dwindle until only the most mentally deranged people stay (a few dozen), even they may leave. During the decline, @Master will struggle to keep the site on as the amount of active users dwindle. He will have some days where teh forum is offline since he can only afford to keep it up for 5 days for example... then 4, then 3... until looksmax.org has to be officially archived or put offline forever.
So too, the west (particuarly Europe) may struggle with declining educational performance, decline in creativity, increase in median age and non-existent birth rates, rampant mental health crisises, death of Western (particularly European) intellectual inventiveness, infrastructure decline, and so much more. People may wish to immigrate to better juristictions (ex. Dubai or new city-state like places like Starbase, Texas) until the West is dead.
America could bifrucate from Europe and become its own civilization.
If Europe wants to stay relevant, it would need to reinvent itself, deeply. It can't cling to the past, since we don't live in between 1500-1900
Resources for further exploration
(published in 1918) -> The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/72344/72344-h/72344-h.htm
GPT summary:
The author compares the decline of Western civilization, particularly in Europe, to the decay of a Western-dominated online forum. Both are experiencing institutional collapse, with a decline in important structures like marriage, family, education, and governance in the West, mirrored by the forum's failure in moderation, intellectual activity, and community health and poor speech and conduct (the user complains about people commonly telling others to kill themselves, and dismissing people's hard work using "DNRD" aka did not read). This will ultimately lead to the death of looksmax.org and the death of the West respectively.
The author predicts that, much like the forum's active user base will shrink until only a few remain over the course in the short-medium term future (3-7 years), Western societies may deteriorate further, facing issues like economic stagnation, irrelevance, descent from hegemony, crime, loneliness, and a lack of intellectual and creative innovation. The rise of alternative jurisdictions like Dubai, digital community camps across the world, or Starbase, Texas, may prompt people to leave the West, just like people will migrate sway from the forum to other online communities or live in physical reality.
The author suggests that for Europe to remain relevant, it must reinvent itself, abandoning outdated models and adapting to new realities, much like how America could potentially separate from Europe and form its own distinct civilization. The reference to The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler encourages further exploration of these themes.
