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The Amish, sure. But no serious culture has abandon technology.


There's records of it, Graeber details some instances in The Dawn of Everything. As to your definition of culture, I would say it's lacking in sophistication. And when not abandoning it, in many cases it can be foisted upon people.

Imagine a scenario where some people's hand farm, but their traditional trade partners elected to buy into the globalist system: there's simply no way for them to compete against industries of scale. So they're disintegrated from their neighbors and can't rely upon them for trade. And if you look at the record, there is evidence of widespread trade networks from people's dwelling in South/Central America to the North American East. If we take Diamond's word for it, that's a considerable disruption due to the sort of intrinsic constraints he proposed (poor progenitor species for agriculture/beasts of burden) that may present if extremely strict conservativism is abided.


Live out of your imagination, not your history.


Compare your culture’s TFR to the Amish. Which is the “serious culture”? Which will still exist in 200 years?


Using math I’d say probably western liberal culture is more likely to survive. Amish culture requires western liberal culture since they can’t defend themselves. If western liberal culture has a successor there’s a lower probability that the Amish are allowed to exist.


what do flight restrictions have to do with this?




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