> going to be and stay an industrial society no. modern society can only happen at massive scale. intelligence/learning/knowledge are memes. that is not how human society really works. humans are dumb ants who fantasize about being smart and powerful. everything you see is the emergent effect of unconscious activity which can only happen at massive scale. if the bulk of humanity was wiped out the survivors of modern industrial societies would scavenge until they died out and the only survivors would be the very few pre-industrial societies that still exist, if they aren't wiped out by scavengers first.
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