What's Going on in the Middle East?

Ocofficial: I've come up with five stages of a civilization or decline. So this is my little versionf, yes. But just quickly, to give people a history of this, imand this has been something people have been interested in for a long time. And all kinds of ideas bounce off this and infuse our culture. Think about science fiction and distopian a motifs are often built upon a conceptof decline. A some people push back on it. Bruno masis whove quoted on this pocast ta nmber of times in his book about the usa. He says it's more an evolution a but i think it's still a helpful way of