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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 30

    (Why) American Collapse is Extraordinary by @umairh “American collapse is a supercollapse, a mega-collapse, a hyper-collapse. It combines all the elements we know of in how nations fall into ruin — and that is a special, striking, and strange thing.” https://eand.co/why-this-is-no-ordinary-collapse-7f1a73d5616e …pic.twitter.com/t9KGBmCqbo

    1:31 AM - 30 Jun 2018
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    • semiosphere Ⓐ 🏴 🇵🇸 Kelly Wind cyrille martraire Paul Harland Derek Gonyeo aha Josh Anderson Johnny Ringo - dette sind ødelægger fascister Sebastien Plisson
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      2. ((λ()'Dr.ArneBab))‏ @ArneBab Jun 30
        Replying to @aral @umairh

        what we need to remember: After the roman collapse we had over thousand years of stagnation which we now call the dark ages. How can we avoid that today?

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      3. Dr. Kristi DiClemente‏ @dr_xpi Jun 30
        Replying to @ArneBab @aral @umairh

        We don’t call it the Dark Ages, and it wasn’t stagnant. Understanding that is a good start. The Roman empire also lasted until 1453 in the east. I think it is important to learn from the past, but first we have to learn ABOUT the past otherwise we keep making the same mistakes.

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      4. ((λ()'Dr.ArneBab))‏ @ArneBab Jul 1
        Replying to @dr_xpi @aral @umairh

        However if you have a succint reference to where the middle ages went forward, where it stagnated and where it went backwards, I’d be happy if you could send a link. My knowledge is limited to school education, prose, and diverse but not comprehensive documentaries and articles.

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      1. ((λ()'Dr.ArneBab))‏ @ArneBab Jun 30
        Replying to @aral @umairh

        that’s strong — thank you for sharing!

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      2. ((λ()'Dr.ArneBab))‏ @ArneBab Jun 30
        Replying to @aral @umairh

        the author (umair) throws out around one article every two days. Do you know who he is?

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      3. Jack Deeth‏ @JackDeeth Jun 30
        Replying to @ArneBab @aral @umairh

        yes, it's @umairh.

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      1. ((λ()'Dr.ArneBab))‏ @ArneBab Jun 30
        Replying to @aral @umairh

        somehow it sounds like the roman collapse — but with nazis added in.

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      1. Smári McCarthy‏Verified account @smarimc Jun 30
        Replying to @aral @glynmoody @umairh

        I'm failing to see how theocracy or fascism could be anything else than authoritarian. The article reads somewhat like a set of distinctions made for the sole purpose of making them, as opposed to providing a useful analytical model.

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      1. WorldBrain.io‏ @worldbrain Jun 30
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        "Theocracy times fascism times authoritarianism times kleptoracy yields a kind of pyroclastic flow — that cloud of ash and thunder rolling down a volcano — larger, faster, and more deadly than in modern history."http://memex.link/HkO-nANfQ/eand.co/why-this-is-no-ordinary-collapse-7f1a73d5616e …

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