Once upon a hike, in Lebanon's Baskinta region.
Lebnaon is full of discarded ruins; the abandoned dreams of unsuccessful farms. One unlucky harvest, one neglected summer, one or two hard winters, and all that remains for generation of efforts is a few stumbling stone walls.
Today, the country appears heading in that direction. We forgot the self-sufficiency of our forbearers, and grew complacent. Yet, for all its mild weather and pleasant life, Lebanon is an unforgiving country that could, at best, sustain a million people.
At least until hydroponic technology comes into its own, and until we can find sustainable way to solve our energy hunger.
The more we progress, the greater the risk of a devolution into a #DimAge Already, our own #technology is growing too complex for us to understand or manage, and scales up faster than our own understanding can keep up.
In todays’ world, transport choke points are unavoidable, a feature of an unsustainable, #globalized world.
The #RedSea passage #BabElMandab is one of those, critical because of the #MiddleEast's central importance to the world's #EnergyEconomy
Agree to the rich world's desired outcome, before building the systems that made it rich? You get one form #CarbonColonialism
Then again, too much of a system focus, you get the excesses of the gilded age.
Better a #FailedState than a crazy kingdom.
A failed state is like a broken clock; it is broken, but may still be right twice day. On the other hand, a crazy kingdom is like an off clock; if it is off by 5%, it is only right once every 10 days.
...In addition, in a failed state, you and your community stand a chance to grow and succeed; the crazy king can't easily reach you, unlike in our modern anarcho-tyranny
