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This trope of cultures growing decadent and lazy before being overthrown is simply not true outside of fantasy novels. Here's a series that goes through actual
by wonnage 6y ago
This trope of cultures growing decadent and lazy before being overthrown is simply not true outside of fantasy novels.
Here's a series that goes through actual history:
https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization/ https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
- dash2 6y agoMaybe, but plenty of intelligent specialists have thought otherwise. * It was a common idea about the Roman empire. Gibbon found it plausible though he invoked other mechanisms. * John Stuart Mill, who was hardly a pompous conservative: https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/12/11/luxury-and-societal-decadence/ https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/12/11/luxury-and-societa... * Toynbee too. * More recently Francis Fukuyama wrote Political Order and Political Decay.