WilsonSmith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@cammerman" class="u-url mention">@<span>cammerman</span></a></span> </p><p>The stochastic <a href="https://c.im/tags/2ndUScivilWAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>2ndUScivilWAR</span></a> has begun ! The coming economic crash will make it overt for all to see ! The U.S. had a good run 1776-2024 ! All empires collapse! </p><p>————————-<br />“How to recognize a decaying civilization:<br />1. Disparity of wealth (economy)<br />2. Hatred against lower class not limited to ethnicity, religion, migrants, etc. (Social cohesion)<br />3. Deaths of scholars/scholarly works (anti-progress of knowledge/sciences)<br />4. Rise of calamity businesses such as war/ conquest, life/death, food/famine (fueled by previous ranks) “</p><p>“Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.<br />So concluded the historian Arnold Toynbee in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 different civilisations.”</p><p> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2019021</span><span class="invisible">8-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190218-the-lifespans-of-ancient-civilisations-compared" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2019021</span><span class="invisible">8-the-lifespans-of-ancient-civilisations-compared</span></a></p>