Reddit reviews How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)
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cites this book: https://www.amazon.ca/How-Civilizations-Die-Islam-Dying/dp/159698273X
Which seems to be delicious to nutjob alt right like Daniel Pipes.
At the of the day having 7 billion on a planet that had one billion in the late 1800s.. Getting rid of billions takes at least a couple of life times.
I predict Islam is not going anywhere for a hundred years. At that point the world will be a very different place.
Yeah about that language thingy....
According to the author of "How Civilizations Die..."
http://www.amazon.com/How-Civilizations-Die-Islam-Dying/dp/159698273X
He sez that there have been an estimated 128,000 languages since the beginning of humankind, we have samples of writings of 90+ of these same languages and we can only read 19 of these.
I guess he's pointing out how really fragile human existence is and we really don't know a lot about previous civilizations.
Has anyone read How Civilizations Die by David Goldman? I don't agree with everything he writes, but he makes some interesting points about declining birth rates and their effects. He focuses on Iran how it's declining population will ultimately result in it's destruction or "cultural suicide", as he refers to it.
The Fight or Flight response in you is about 100,000 years old. 100,000 years ago, if you heard a loud roar in the forest, you either ran like Hell or got ready for the fight of your life. Failing to do either one, meant you were lunch.
That response is still in you. The problem today is that subconsciously everything appears to be roaring at you. In other, words, your Fight or Flight response is always in the ON position.
We could go back to Darwin but that is a bit tedious although hats off to him for coming up with the Law of Natural Selection. A better book would be How Civilizations Die. Its more about people and less about turtles.
> It is quite likely that Islam will overtake us in number in the next 50-100 years.
Nah the evidence doesn't support that: http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myths-fastest-growing.htm
Plus, their birthrates are falling just like the first world's are. But much much faster, what the first world has done slowly in a century they're doing in a single generation, and its going to be disastrous, read the free parts of this book