Will power and greed end every human civilization in the end?

Question

Well Gavin, they were destroyed by power also. Power from nature.

Answer 1

you betcha, i mean greed will, or the combination of the two. imagine power without greed! a while back, someone asked what the most pressing problem to be solved was, and I could only think of greed. it is the root of all problems - with the exception of illnesses. so let me ask you - do you think power will always result in greed - for more power? churchill said, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absulutly.

Answer 2

There is a balance between good and evil that is called the internal Jihad that is all that is left in Jihad, the rest is man made garbage, because Muhammed already did all that hard work for them Muslims and yet they still think they got something to fight about.  The struggle is within them all!

Answer 3

i think, eventually, it will.

Answer 4

Successive generations of less committed, less confident, less industrious, and culturally weaker people end civilizations.

Answer 5

I think it is the sad truth. I am only human. I want power. I am greedy. Then of course, the sad fact that you, are human too. And there is double the trouble. If there is only one, must there be what we must.

Answer 6

Probably.  For an interesting take on the history read, "Collapse..." by Jarrad Diamond.

At least until humans find a way to avoid the motivations for greed and are able to adjust to power, but then perhaps they will not be human any longer and so there could be no "human" civilization.

Answer 7

will and greed is the basis of the human race, to strive and will that is to be human.

It will not end it but if you take it away it will.

Answer 8

No,, Crete was destroyed by an earthquake and Harrapa   and Mohenjo Dara fell into endless drought when a major river, the Saraswati, dried up.

Answer 9

America and Rome have some similarities, to deny that would be idiotic.

When the Roman Empire ended they created the Roman Catholic Church which partially ruled Europe with a system of Feudalism with the King and the Church being on the top of the chain.

If we apply this concept to the American Empire in the future when America collapses it could possibly look like this.

Christ was created.

Anti-Christ will be created.

After the 'Anti-Christ' does whatever it is he will do, America will start to collapse later on. Foreign Countries that are destroyed or economic devistated will take what is theirs and America will create its version of the Catholic Church, Called VCHIP banking.

VCHIP banking will be manditory in all Americanized countries to prevent theifts and revolts that will occur after the Anti-Christ`s destruction.

Governments will have military control. But Bankers will own the people and towns.

1000 years ago this was the system, but with churches.