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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Feb 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Wesley Yang

    I'm trying to think of a single case where this is true.https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1097868549480214534 …

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    Wesley Yang @wesyang
    It seems an iron law of history that prosperity that insulates people from adversity and the attendant virtues that accompany the struggle against it leads to narcissism, and narcissism leads to the dissolution of society
    7:26 AM - 19 Feb 2019
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      1. Zac  🐢 🌹‏ @thetallman_Z 19 Feb 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        According to a “hard times make great men” meme I saw Rome

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      1. Михайло Ska Tov‏ @m_s_ska_tov 19 Feb 2019
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        I mean - at some point, the argument there is just that nothing lasts forever, or even just a kind of regression to the mean.

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      2. Rhys Needham‏ @Rhys_Needham 19 Feb 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The Romans, perhaps, but that probably took 200-500 years or so?

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      3. Falling Stone‏ @falling_stone 19 Feb 2019
        Replying to @Rhys_Needham @HeerJeet

        I think that might be a way to think about it.

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      1. Falling Stone‏ @falling_stone 19 Feb 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        not the dissolution forever, but perhaps for short, violent periods. Maybe he's trying to draw a parallel to the French Revolution?

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      1.  🚩Dan Credentials 🚩‏ @CharlemagnumPI 19 Feb 2019
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        When you skim Ibn Khladun once

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      2. White supremacy was always a suicide pact‏ @bds11205 19 Feb 2019
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        Rome, various Chinese collapses, French revolution and any number of useless European dynastic wars. I don't get this tweet.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Feb 2019
        Replying to @bds11205

        I don't think any serious contemporary historian would credit Rome's collapse to narcissism.

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      2. Yuval‏ @yuval_v 19 Feb 2019
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        Isn't that the same thesis of "Decline of the West" that was reproduced several hundred times since in minute variations? Blah blah blah Democracies are weak blah blah blah only through constant struggle can <enter object here> survive blah blah blah we are doomed

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      3. Rocky Persaud‏ @rockypersaud 19 Feb 2019
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        ie. the old "decadence" claim that authoritarians trot out.

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