Debacle

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A Debacle is a catastrophic evolutionary failure. A debacle occurs usually when a species' technological, administrative, economic, and military prowess outpaces its ability to heal and reconnect, usually because an addicted Accumulating Class[1] cannot be made to release its control over The System. Debacle leads to devastating evolutionary setback.

Related LP Terms

Debacle >

Non-LP Related Terms

Debacle > Armageddon

Notes

A debacle is an End of Stage risk/occurrence. A debacle occurs when a species has developed advanced economic, political, technological, and military systems without healing and a concomitant reconnection. A debacle typically occurs because a disconnected species is being "held back" and consequently cannot unfold enough to handle the powers provided by advanced financial, technological, and administrative capacity.

A debacle is characterized by ecological, economic, social, political, and military spiral into self-destruction.

Debacles typically do not wipe out a species, but they can cause an inordinate amount of unnecessary suffering, and they can set a species back several decades or more. For this reason, an Intervention may be staged to facilitate Graduation.

Footnotes

  1. Sosteric, Mike. "How Money Is Destroying the World." The Conversation, 2018. https://theconversation.com/how-money-is-destroying-the-world-96517