(June 28, 2018 at 2:44 pm)Joods Wrote:(June 28, 2018 at 2:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Requires amending the constitution. Good luck with that.
One can hope though.
There have been 27 amendments to the Constitution, though I suspect there is a good chance the US will not survive long enough to see 28. It is very hard to imagine a way out of this disaster that preserves anything resembling the current US of A. (Think of the fall of the Soviet Union.) I will be pretty happy if we manage the fall without the lunatics in charge being provoked into tossing nukes around. Even if we manage some semblance of a controlled crash, environmental degradation, resource depletion, and overpopulation will - eventually - overwhelm most of our current political systems; the US included. That is kind of a grim prognoses but, on the other hand, it seems to be the way the evolution of the cosmos makes room for new ideas, new experiments, and new approaches to how life evolves. Maybe, a few thousand years from now, the "choke point" that was the failure of our first industrialized society will be seen as a necessary step in the evolution of human kind into a truly intelligent species.
Then again, maybe we are all just fucked.
