The modern world is the result of the game of civilization having been played enough times that one of the players won, and began to use the whole world as its board.
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If you know the secret of the game of civilization, you know this is very bad, because the ultimate winner of every game that has been played so far is the quietedt and most patient player of all: the house (the entropic principle which all civilizations futilely contend against)
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Look at how the oldest civilized places on earth all come to resemble eachother after millenia of unalterable urban stagnation. Barbarian invasions as described by
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Part of the edge of Northern Europeans is that they were civilized relatively late in history. Look at ancient civs: most creativity and dynamism is in the first 1000 years or so.
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