You are not going to find a more charitable interlocutor than I.Speaker to Animals wrote:You're free to engage charitably and actually respond to what I argued any time.
I am willing to accept every single one of your propositions about men building civilization, and innovating, and all the rest.
I just want one, tiny, shred of evidence that civilization is on the decline, or that any civilization has ever collapsed because men were unhappy.
That is what would take your hypothesis, and turn it into something a little more substantial.
Any. Single. Piece. Of. Evidence.
Historical, statistical, anything. What makes you think we ARE (your capitals) in a decline, when every available metric for the health of a civilization would suggest that we aren't?