What Happens When There's Nobody Left to Save Us?
Passively waiting for centralized powers to "save us" from their own excesses is not a solution.
It's no exaggeration to say that our way of life depends on somebody somewhere saving us from the excesses that are the bedrock of our way of life. What excesses, you ask? There are none. This is true in one sense: all the excesses have been normalized by previous "saves": whenever the bedrock excesses threaten to collapse under their own weight, the Fe…
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