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Shark bites off woman's hands as she tries to take a selfie with it (local12.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Is incompetence and ignorance widespread? Yes.

Are most things underpinning civilization too complicated for most to understand? Also yes.

But do they have that innate human spirit of creativity and persistence that will enable them to figure it out if it fell on them and their peers to rebuild? Well, no. Not really, probably not.

They'll figure out some of it and make a primitive and misunderstood approximation of civilization. Like a parrot mimicking good poetry, people will not understand the purpose behind the designs that shaped their life. They'll try to follow the notes and say the words, but they won't æ understand. They won't rebuild civilization, they'll be making a barely functional tribe.