If you're not reading Adored by Hordes, you should be
I was just talking to someone who was saying the same thing. Agrarian revolutions are the only truly successful ones. The U.S., for instance.
Will and Ariel Durant observed that successful civilizations start with getting pastoral and agricultural practices right, so probably the smartest thing for a late-phase wealthy democracy to do is encourage a broad-based return to agriculture. I don't see our leaders doing that anytime soon, so check out your local tilth and urban horticulture organizations, and farmer's markets. They are most likely the bones a new civilization will form sinews, muscles, and synapses around.
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I was just talking to someone who was saying the same thing. Agrarian revolutions are the only truly successful ones. The U.S., for instance.