{"id":1873,"date":"2014-06-23T20:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2014-06-23T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:06:23","slug":"decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment the collective human mind is in an expansive mood because things are generally getting better and wealth is increasing.<br \/>\nThis may not be true for much longer.<br \/>\nTo get an idea of the future catastrophe look at Japan, a country on a straight road to extinction, at the moment running at budget deficit of 8% to pay pensions, with debt over twice their national wealth.<br \/>\nWhen we all realise we are in collective decline and there is no hope for us we will start fighting each other like Jews in the gas chamber, climbing to the top of a pile of corpses for the last gasp of air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment the collective human mind is in an expansive mood because things are generally getting better and wealth is increasing. This may not be true for much longer. To get an idea of the future catastrophe look at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/decline\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3Wm4j-decline","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1890,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/more-thoughts-on-the-collective-human-mind\/","url_meta":{"origin":1873,"position":0},"title":"More Thoughts on the Collective Human Mind","author":"taxicle","date":"June 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Any football match between China any Uruguay is bound to have Uruguay as favourites to win, in spite of the massive collective superiority of Chinese brainpower over Uruguayan. 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