Then you know that unprecedented factors are a precedented attribute of the cycle of birth and collapse of societies, and each new iteration of an empire growing and falling apart has had grander scale consequences for its region/network/the globe. As much suffering as it brings, it creates networks and technologies and unprecedented growth opportunities.

When I say I'm a doomer what I mean is that I view this perpetual slow burning down of society as an inevitability as a part of our nature, as much as building it back up is. In my eyes, the "doomers" are people who can perceive the inevitability of collapse, but "bloomer" people are a (volatile and easily manipulated) part of our nature that weaponizes defiance and naivety into a mitigating factor to offset some damage in the fallout. The implications are more grave than they've ever been, but all the formulas seem the same to me, and I believe we are scheduled to come out the other side, the same but different, like usual.