Re:Studying the demise of historic civilisations
by riffraff on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:48AM
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and yet the largest improvements in life quality have occurred in the last century, when most of the great empires have fallen.
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Re:Studying the demise of historic civilisations
by remarkEon on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:08AM
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And you attribute this fact entirely - as in 100% - to the fall of Empires, and not the technological advancements that happened in parallel?
I find it strikingly hard to believe that democracy, which is what I assume you’re referring to, is the actual imperative that caused this. If we had managed to avoid WWI it’s really difficult to imagine that we’d still be using a horse drawn buggy and a typewriter.