Civilizations do end themselves through positive feedback, where demand overshoots production capacities, resulting in social upheaval & civil war; yet for the first time, a dying civilization might take the earth with it, & secure itself the only tomb worthy of its exorbitance.
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We might be in the process of giving a new sense to Pericles' Aνδρῶν ἐπιφανῶν πᾶσα γῆ τάφος, "For illustrious men, the entire world is a grave."
8:53 AM - 15 Oct 2018
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