Byzantium was in decline for seven centuries until the Ottomans pulled the plug. Rome was in decline for several centuries prior to its sacking.

Climate change and the accompanying plagues, droughts, famines, and calamities that accompany it might accelerate and exacerbate the state's capacity and willingness to respond to these crises, but all it might mean is that this is a new normal added to the reproleterization of American life.

I don't really have a point but it is just a thought that I (perhaps others) are going to have to accept that future, and that is a kind of new world I am unsure as to how to adapt to.

  • PresterJohnBrown [any]
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    4 years ago

    Imagine being in England being too stupid to fix any of the Roman ruins that were slowly crumbling around you for 1000 years. Imagine 1000 years of not knowing how to fix an aqueduct that you rely on for water.

      • PresterJohnBrown [any]
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        4 years ago

        I don't mean "not" I mean literally can't. As in, nobody even knows how to do it and nobody has for centuries. Imagine if our technology was still from the 17th century and also nobody knew how to fix it when it broke so it just... stayed broken forever and became a ruin.