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Paired with civilization as one pole in a recurring historical cycle rather than as a simple moral category.
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barbarity
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...History works in cycles, rise, fall, up, down, civilization, and then barbarity, okay? There's something good or bad about these things. If there's an..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...History works in cycles, rise, fall, up, down, civilization, and then barbarity, okay? There's something good or bad about these things. If there's an..."
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He argues that history moves in recurring cycles such as rise and fall, civilization and barbarity, and that these patterns should be treated like natural events rather than moral verdicts.
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"...History works in cycles, rise, fall, up, down, civilization, and then barbarity, okay? There's something good or bad about these things. If there's an..."
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"...collapse. And this will lead to 30,000 years of war, violence, barbarity. And the Foundation proposes a new science called psychohistory. Which is to..."
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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