When was the last time the world wasn't falling apart?

It’s no more falling apart now than ever. In my own life, I guess when I was 0–3. And by not falling apart, I should specify, I mean when there wasn’t some kind of darkness haunting me.

May 16 1997, around tea-time.

You’d probably have to go back to hunter-gatherer times, like 20,000 years ago.

FWIW, it’s not. It is simply the churn and froth of consciousness. It is a state of impermanence that appears to be falling apart because a limited sense of awareness leads us to expectations of permanence.

‘Cause people. People… and pancakes.

My world or the world in general. Some place in the world is always falling apart. It just moves from one place to another and then to another.

Around 12,000 years ago the ice sheets were melting and man was exploring northwards into pristine woodlands in a planet without a single city or a single town.

Yesterday. Everything is going quite well at the moment.

@flutherother 20,000 years ago we were in an ice age. Enough water from the ocean had frozen at the polar caps so that the Bering Strait was exposed and the people in Sibera Europe migrated to Alaska on foot, and thence into the rest of North and South America.

An ice age could be considered the world “falling apart,” if you had any frame of reference…which they didn’t, so….

It’s been falling apart since we started walking upright, wearing clothes to protect our nakedness, and making, ugh, rules.

UIgh. I hate bras.

@tups What part of the second law of thermodynamics are you having difficulty grasping? :-)

Never ever.

@ZEPHYRA Either the universal law of Entropy is wrong, or the answer is actually always until entropy becomes complete, and that’s an asymptotic curve that will take infinitely long to reach absolute zero.

The mid-90s were pretty cool.

I mean, the most pressing matters on the news were a politician’s uninteresting minor sexual indiscretion and an athlete getting away with murder.

Now that’s what, Tuesday’s five o’clock report?