John on Nostr: This despite the facts. Collapse as it is fetishized by Western historians is ...

This despite the facts.

Collapse as it is fetishized by Western historians is exceedingly rare, and usually a product of a ruling class that decides if they can't have civilization *nobody* can.

There are as many ways of organizing people and living together - many more successful than the West's, albeit less indifferent to death and suffering - as there are places that people have lived together;

The "present" is not necessarily "the best of all possible worlds" (thanks Candide!)

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