Is There any Transition to a Minimalist Industrial Society? (No)

We really do seem to be streaking along to a civilization level crisis. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, I never contemplated I'd be living through this. This is not a natural crisis, by the way. It all seems like stage-craft. All the world governments seem in on it, which suggests the way the world is organized is completely different than we think.

The controlling oligarchy seems to want to replace the current system with "technocracy". Technocracy seems like a total nightmare. It's authoritarian central planning and micromanagement of people's lives. The bullshit we're currently experiencing with the covid madness is a sneak preview. Imagine the scared retard hoard getting riled up non stop about various fright-topics by the plastic TV people so they surrender more and more control of their lives to the oligarchy. That's probably what the next few years is going to look like.

On top of being oppressive, technocracy just won't work. There's no way to combine authoritarianism with technological innovation. More importantly, the model-based control of the economy will just fail over and over again.

If technocracy won't work, and if we really are running into resource limitations, is it possible to scale back to a smaller footprint version of our industrial and technological economy? History says no. The main practical problem is the civilization technology toolkit and knowledge base is all inter-related. It doesn't seem possible to take it apart, or edit it down.

It also seems like it's peculiar to the mix of people who built it. The genetic and cultural history of the system's people probably can't translate to other random mixes of people. For example, even though the Romans and the Germanic people lived side by side and worked together for hundreds of years, classical civilization failed to be transplanted. Roman civilization couldn't withstand integration of the hodgepodge of weird cults and ideas from the eastern Mediterranean people either.

The YouTube channel "Pockets of the Future" presents the idea that we'll go back to a really basic agricultural society, but only after a sort of planet-level collapse of civilization. Then individual communities will reboot from scratch on a small scale. That's sort of what happened in the middle ages.