> Except... we haven't failed? We're still around. The use case for a "Manual for Civilization" is a scenario where we have failed, so it's a valid assumption

> Except... we haven't failed? We're still around. The use case for a "Manual for Civilization" is a scenario where we have failed, so it's a valid assumption when considering something like this. It might be pretty unwise to create such a manual, because it would almost certainly be a manual for repeating the last set of mistakes.