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(Classic Episode) Samo Burja: Patterns of Destruction and Structures of Rebirth

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The Rise and Fall of Civilizations

A civilization is an ecosystems of interdependent institutions, he says. One individual tree dying doesn't mean that the forest is gone; it's much healthier for it. The Roman Empire was governed by a coup de tat where people would take the legions and declare themselves emperor. Once this system ran out of input, which in the case of the Romans, I think was some combination of economic development and expansion by conquest, it as all pyramid schemes inevitably started to fail.

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