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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 10:16 PM
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Is it the End of empire or the End of civilization?
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All empires collapse eventually: Akkad, Sumeria, Babylonia, Ninevah, Assyria, Persia, Macedonia, Greece, Carthage, Rome, Mali, Songhai, Mongonl, Tokugawaw, Gupta, Khmer, Hapbsburg, Inca, Aztec, Spanish, Dutch, Ottoman, Austrian, French, British, Soviet, you name them, they all fell, and most within a few hundred years. The reasons are not really complex. An empire is a kind of state system that inevitably makes the same mistakes simply by the nature of its imperial structure and inevitably fails because of its size, complexity, territorial reach, stratification, heterogeneity, domination, hierarchy, and inequalities.
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Darkseid69 Donating Member (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 10:22 PM
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1. Its the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine...



Sorry, it popped in my head
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lastknowngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 10:32 PM
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2. Check out fromthewildernes.com His latest is pretty damning
n/t
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