3 ways to destroy civilization.

[lacktheknack]

1) Nuke it from orbit

2) Exterminatus

3) Force everyone to listen to Ke$ha songs non-stop. Eventually everyone should kill themselves.

I wouldn't, Ke$ha is fun to listen to.

 

[Irridium]

1) Nuke it from orbit

2) Exterminatus

3) Force everyone to listen to Ke$ha songs non-stop. Eventually everyone should kill themselves.

I wouldn't, Ke$ha is fun to listen to.

Listen to something non-stop long enough, and you'll eventually go insane.

 

[Thaluikhain]

And what of Option 4: The Complacency Method? That is: Allow one society to know peace, well-being, luxury and security for a while, then murder them all while they're asleep? This happened to Greece once, it's going to happen to the Western World fairly quickly if we fail to learn from history.

Um...could you explain this in more detail? When did this happen to Greece and why would it happen to the west?

 

[M4A1Sopmod]

Let us not forget the old catch-all: stupidity. Given the right tools and left alone stupid people will destroy the earth. The shocking thing is that there are very few ways to separate the stupid people from people who actually use their brains, and the stupids are reproducing and taking the identities of real people at an alarming rate. It won't be long at all until they complete their assimilation and unintentionally destroy the world by leaving the faucet on for too long or something...

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Here's a few

1) Create a product that becomes so huge that it creates an economic bubble, much like tulip mania in the netherlands. Eventually that bubble will burst and the economy of that country will be severely damaged.

2) Go to detroit and find out where the city keeps its archives/spending money. EMP it and watch as the city is destroyed. With almost no government in the city, the HQ's of the major automobile companies will also fall. The economy is damaged.

I'll probably post more as I think of them.

 

[JordanXlord]

there is only one way to destroy civilization...that is right


The Right way: Send a Drunken Chuck norris to Country, Wait a couple of days.
He has allready Leveled half of Asia or Russia...or Iran

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Option 1: The Mark Zuckerberg Strategy. The idea here is to identify one of the worst traits of the human species, in Zuckerberg's case vanity, and devote your life to catering too it. He has already used this strategy to, intentionally or otherwise, overthrow the government of Tunisia. If he keeps this up, he might just overthrow all third world regimes.

Wait what? The Tunisian Revolution started because an oppressed man set himself ON FIRE! what does that have to do with Facebook? Do you mean that they're organizing themselves via Facebook? And isn't it good that they're rebelling against corrupt autocrats!?

OT: Have India become their neighbor and then slowly leak Indian pop culture (pretentious films, Mindless Dancing and all) into the country until the latter has lost all semblance of its own identity and culture and now just mindlessly worships said pretentious Indian pop.

 

[Drakmorg]

Here's something I just thought up:

Convince the world's population that society has collapsed. That's pretty much it. Somehow convince everyone that society is gone, and they'll pretty much make sure that it actually happens.
Once people stop thinking that they have to be nice to everyone, or at least that they shouldn't murder them for their possessions, then civilization will collapse as the brutal opportunists slaughter and enslave their fellow man.

 

[ApeShapeDeity]

Yep, I'm going to go with cultural subjugation.

Just pump them full of your ideology. Imbed it into litrature entertainment, food, sex lives. Like putting crack in some guys weed. They'll get addicted and start coming to you for your cultural crack volintarily.

Good-bye old civilisation, hello MY CIVILISATION! MWAH AHAHAHAHAHHAHA!

Edit: Or if we could just convince basically evryone in the world who owes anyone any money to seadfastly deny the fact, simultaneously, on a global scale... BAAAAM! Cities in flames.

 

[RatRace123]

A large group of Clownfish Assassins, ancient order of assassins, trained for generations to kill any enemy and any corrupt leader.

Those Clownfish you see in the tank at your doctor's office... watch out, those could be some of the legendary order.

Be forever afraid.

 

[zwoodco10]

4)The Us/USSR Cold war method: Build big enough bombs so that the radiation will kill everything on earth, then keep them in low security facilities so any old schmuck can get his hands on them.

Am I playing the game correctly?

Honestly, your statement is wrong. My father actually was a part of the battalion that defended the Nuclear Silos in the Midwest, and those things were a *****. The control facilities were DEEP underground, the silo covers are made of very strong metal alloys, and in order to think about maybe prepping to fire one of those bad boys you needed clearance from four or five different people, including the guy sitting next to you who would most likely die in the event of a launch.

The launch controllers sit two-to-a control room, and each one of them has a key. Both are required in order to fire, along with Presidential and Joint-Chiefs approval.

 

[RA92]

Have India become their neighbor and then slowly leak Indian pop culture (pretentious films, Mindless Dancing and all) into the country until the latter has lost all semblance of its own identity and culture and now just mindlessly worships said pretentious Indian pop.

Just so you know, for the World Cup inauguration this year in BD, instead of hiring an all-out indigenous performers, they're actually just bringing in performers from Bollywood. In the World Cup inauguration. Losing all semblance of your own identity? You bet.

OT: Apple having a monopoly on all industries. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.240875-Rumor-Apple-could-be-thinking-about-buying-EA-and-sony?page=1] [footnote]Yes, I know this rumor is old, and yes, they probably were spending the $50 billion+ on securing a supply line, but still... the possibility makes me shudder...[/footnote]

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

4)The Us/USSR Cold war method: Build big enough bombs so that the radiation will kill everything on earth, then keep them in low security facilities so any old schmuck can get his hands on them.

Am I playing the game correctly?

Honestly, your statement is wrong. My father actually was a part of the battalion that defended the Nuclear Silos in the Midwest, and those things were a *****. The control facilities were DEEP underground, the silo covers are made of very strong metal alloys, and in order to think about maybe prepping to fire one of those bad boys you needed clearance from four or five different people, including the guy sitting next to you who would most likely die in the event of a launch.

The launch controllers sit two-to-a control room, and each one of them has a key. Both are required in order to fire, along with Presidential and Joint-Chiefs approval.

I'm sorry, I wasn't implying that anyone from teh US could get their hands on a nuke. I was talking about the chaos of post USSR Russia. Where teh military stoped getting payed, so there was a large chance of security at the nuclear silos would disappear completely, or the nukes would get sold by a few corrupt soldiers. The only reason I included the US in there was because they helped spur on the arms race.

 

[zwoodco10]

4)The Us/USSR Cold war method: Build big enough bombs so that the radiation will kill everything on earth, then keep them in low security facilities so any old schmuck can get his hands on them.

Am I playing the game correctly?

Honestly, your statement is wrong. My father actually was a part of the battalion that defended the Nuclear Silos in the Midwest, and those things were a *****. The control facilities were DEEP underground, the silo covers are made of very strong metal alloys, and in order to think about maybe prepping to fire one of those bad boys you needed clearance from four or five different people, including the guy sitting next to you who would most likely die in the event of a launch.

The launch controllers sit two-to-a control room, and each one of them has a key. Both are required in order to fire, along with Presidential and Joint-Chiefs approval.

I'm sorry, I wasn't implying that anyone from teh US could get their hands on a nuke. I was talking about the chaos of post USSR Russia. Where teh military stoped getting payed, so there was a large chance of security at the nuclear silos would disappear completely, or the nukes would get sold by a few corrupt soldiers. The only reason I included the US in there was because they helped spur on the arms race.

Oh, well in that case you hit the nail on the head. Hahahah. Post USSR Russia was fucked up.