All civilizations aggressively expand, and then tend towards exclusion, authority, and aristocracy in their decline.
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When they start building walls (including non-physical walls, but more often than not literal walls), it's the beginning of the end.
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What we are witnessing with Trump, Brexit, and the like, is the end of the age of Western Civilization. The enlightenment is over.
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My question is: what Dark Ages will follow the fall of our modern Rome?
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It's probably not avoidable. The world that birthed the modern West has changed, and our civilization is now anachronistic.
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The question is whether we can get from here to there without making the planet literally uninhabitable for humans.
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If this were 1000 or even 500 years ago, I'd bet that no one reading this would be alive to see it. But shit moves WAY faster now.
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It took Graeco-Roman civilization over a millennia to go from a few tiny kingdoms to an operationalized empire to a collapsing giant.
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But Euro-American empire started in earnest only a few centuries ago, and was still expansive and improving in our grandparents' time.
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(I say "improving" because overall, justice and inclusion was increasing rather than decreasing. It still wasn't GOOD, by a long shot!)
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justice and inclusion seems to be continuing in a positive direction despite the expected setbacks, no?
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