There have been authoritarian regimes in the modern world in countries with high literacy rates. There’s a lot written down by regular people living through those times.
The US situation isn’t all that different to the end of the Soviet Union. People think ideology makes it the complete opposite of the US, but hardliners worrying more about conforming to ideology rather than having a functional economy is one of the reasons the Soviet Union finally collapsed.
No, it won’t be the end of civilization, it’s the collapse of a super power which has happened before, and relatively recently.
There have been authoritarian regimes in the modern world in countries with high literacy rates. There’s a lot written down by regular people living through those times.
The US situation isn’t all that different to the end of the Soviet Union. People think ideology makes it the complete opposite of the US, but hardliners worrying more about conforming to ideology rather than having a functional economy is one of the reasons the Soviet Union finally collapsed.
No, it won’t be the end of civilization, it’s the collapse of a super power which has happened before, and relatively recently.
Human history is more than the rise and fall of superpowers, which are often the consequences of those things.