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Thoughts on Societies, and on America. Poor peasants.

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I am reading Thomas Sowell's book "Wealth, Poverty, and Politics", and his discussion of the many factors that affect what kind of society results from a variety of geographic, demographic, social, and genetic factors interacting. For a long time, I have thought about societies like those in Russia and most European and Asian countries in …

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Historic, Dangerous, Civilization-ending? Advanced country which seeded the world with Civilization now committing conscious suicide

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I have looked back in history to find another example of an advanced, world-girdling empire, that ensured its own demise by inviting barbarians to conquer it in real time. I decided that the example of the Roman Empire, which existed for a thousand years and was conquered by barbarians, is not really a good example. …

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