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Sunday, July 25, 2010

History Teaches Whole Civilizations Can Collapse

Maybe that is a fallacious concept.
What really happened to Rome or Athens? They did not disappear completely. But there are some civilizations that really did disappear. What comes to mind are the civilizations in the New World, Mayan, Aztec etc. And tribes disappear or go extinct.

But my thought is that a big civilization, like modern America, might collapse or disappear but that it would take hundreds of years. So the idea that things are going to collapse at any moment is fallacious.

Big changes can happen rapidly to smaller systems. Consider the recent bankruptcies of blue chip companies like General Motors. But GM is not gone. It just got restructured.

Watch out for the future.
Many systems are looking fragile. Which will survive? Which will make the changes before catastrophe hits?

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