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The same culture of eudaimonia that allowed Athens to rise through expansion also caused Athens to decline through the Peloponnesian War.
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"Okay? And, historically, what most historians will tell you is this war was started because Sparta was afraid of an emerging Athens. Okay? Sparta..."
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"Okay? And this eudaimonia will also cause it to decline. Does it make sense? Okay? Because, it's because of the Peloponnesian War which lasts..."
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"...on all these different perspectives. What do you see making civilizations rise, decline, as well as collapse? Right."
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"...I guess, between, well, you can go through periods of rise and decline. But when do we tilt into collapse here?"
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"...So Chinese history is almost a continuous cycle of dynastic rise and decline. Okay, now, in the Western context, there's also a cycle. There..."
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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