According to a “hard times make great men” meme I saw Rome
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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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The Romans, perhaps, but that probably took 200-500 years or so?
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I think that might be a way to think about it.
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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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When you skim Ibn Khladun once
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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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I don't think any serious contemporary historian would credit Rome's collapse to narcissism.
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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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ie. the old "decadence" claim that authoritarians trot out.
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