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A society near collapse is like a tower: the trigger can be riot, bad weather, earthquake, or fire, but the fundamental cause is prior instability from too many elites charging rent.
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A society near collapse is like a tower: the trigger can be riot, bad weather, earthquake, or fire, but the fundamental cause is prior instability from too many elites charging rent.
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"Because when you have the elite, who engage in rhetoric and behavior, eventually, this society will collapse. Because you have too many elite, who..."
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"It will not collapse, on its own. Something must hit it, for it, for it to collapse. But this one thing, could be anything...."
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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