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The researchers also examined a common factor in the collapse of societies with good governance: leaders who abandoned the society’s founding principles and ignored their roles as moral guides for their people.

What does that remind you of?

  • gramxi [they/them]
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    9 days ago

    Our big red boy Matt did a cushvlog series on a book called First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship. It's an examination on the interaction of elite politics and the decline of great powers since the Thirty Years' War which I'd recommended for a more materialist analysis