42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 3 Mar \ parent \ on: What initiated cultural decay in the past, and are we experiencing it? history
Societies do not always collapse from a lack of wealth, invasion, or natural catastrophes.
Most often, they know what is destroying them. But they are so paralyzed by their fear that the road to salvation becomes too painful to even contemplate.
So they implode gradually, then suddenly.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Atreus 3 Mar
Yep. Not too different from someone deep in substance abuse who knows the way out but can't bring himself to take the steps.
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