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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Rise and Fall of the Maya Capital City State

It's hard to resist drawing sweeping conclusions from this because we tend to think that our own civilization right here right now is having its issues, but still things are growing. Historically civilizations come and go all the time. So there is a cautionary tale maybe. And again, we're on the inside of our own situation. We're not going to necessarily see it the way people do in a thousand years.

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