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An empire only collapses when an enemy emerges with energy, openness, and cohesion, because those qualities exploit imperial demotivation, insularity, and fracture.
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An empire only collapses when an enemy emerges with energy, openness, and cohesion, because those qualities exploit imperial demotivation, insularity, and fracture.
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"Okay? So the mass leads to inequality, the organization leads to overproduction, which leads to factionalism, and death leads to hubris. That's why an..."
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"you're willing to promote the best and brightest, if you're willing to be meritocratic, you have a huge advantage. Okay? And so this idea..."
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