I wonder if a key difference between the Bronze Age and our age is that we have perfected the art of “collapse”, to the point where we are collapsing all over t

I wonder if a key difference between the Bronze Age and our age is that we have perfected the art of “collapse”, to the point where we are collapsing all over the place all the time - and we call it change. One could look at countries like the US or UK, and compare their coal-based economy of 1800 with their oil-based economy of two hundred years later, and conclude that these are two radically different societies - but it was a gradual transition, not a collapse of one order and its replacement by another. In the article, there is supreme overconfidence that the then-current ways of doing things would remain the same forever. But I don’t see this viewpoint as a prevailing force in our current society. We positively fetishize new tech and change.