'Chaos theory of Trump' believers fall for survivorship bias. Read Tainter for tons of cases of collapses that *didn't* lead to regeneration
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The deplorables are in it for spite. Their lives suck so the prospect of transient anomie turning into permanent decline doesn't bother the.
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But chaos-theory-of-trump types betting on collapse-and-regeneration are the worst kind of sloppy confirmation-bias driven pseudohistorians.
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would "the Roman Empire collapsed and yet here we are" be an accurate example for of what you mean by collapse-and-regeneration?
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plague would be better, Rome was a messier fragmentation rather than true collapse
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