If we were living through the dark ages, how would we know?

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Energy consumption per capita

Do we know what that metric was during the time of the ancient Egyptians?

Wtf1973

Someone prints money out of thin air

We set foot on the Moon half a century ago, yet today we can’t even retrace that step. The pinnacle of human ambition has somehow regressed into bureaucracy and spectacle. Our art has decayed into algorithmic mass-produced noise with no soul. Our architecture, once a defiant statement of beauty and low time preference, now looks like it was designed by committees afraid of offending geometry.

If you’ve read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, you’ll recognise the patterns.

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