But,sometimes end of cyvilization.
In China dynasties changed,but China cyvilization remained the same till 1949.
When in Egypt,Sumer and Babylon their cyvilization died.
And,we have cases when cyvilization died,but leaved it successor - like with anciemt Crete,Greece,and Rome.
Interesting,what would happen after current Europa fall?
Would our cyvilization be replaced,just like in Egypt,or new cyvilization would be partially our ?
Egypt and China both 'fell back together' after the end of their initial cycle. The reason seems to be a geography that greatly fosters unitary organisation (centred around one or more great rivers) and keeps out external threats (deserts and mountains, respectively).
In such cases, you get a new universal empire after a few centuries of chaos, instead of the whole cycle starting anew.
In most other cases (like Rome) the civilisation dies after its universal empire ends, and ibstead of being reborn, new civilisations are born and 'inherit' elements from their precursor.
The latter is also the most probable fate for the West.
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Hate to be that guy, but it seems like this thread conversation has hit a wall and is going into a loop.
So actually a decent demonstration of human history, then?
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I'm still confused. The notion that all civilizations inevitably become more authoritarian and stratified over time until increasing nepotism leads to a ruling class too incompetent to manage logistics creating civilization-destroying cascade failures or defend themselves against violent replacement by a new ruling class, whether foreign invaders or internal dissidents, yes, I agree with that, I don't like it, but it fits the evidence I've seen in history books and in the modern world with the rise of the security state and chronic failures of just-in-time globalist economics. I just don't see how you get from there to a benevolent-ish status quo outsider becoming dictator and fixing things, or a dictatorship once founded staying benevolent.
All concentrations of power lead to bad ends
over time. This doesn't mean that the actual development on every scale is always like that. Only that the trend is always like that.
Imagine it as a building, facing the ravages of time, as all things must. If a house decays and rots over time, there comes a point where it gets condemned. Or more probably, it turns into a crack den full of degenerates, and then burns down with most of them inside. And then a new building is put up. The new building will also decay, but it'll take time. For a while, it'll be good.
Some buildings are better-designed than others. Some construction materials are more durable than others. The design and the bulding blocks of our current age are unusually poor and weak.
Now, if enough shitty buildings are put up, and the inevitable results manifest, there will eventually be a reaction. People will say: "Tear that shit down! Build good, traditional houses of stone!"
And for the longest time, that call will be ignored. But then you get to rock bottom, and then the call is heeded because
everything else has failed. And then the good, old-fashioned houses of stone are built again.
They, too, will decay. But they do last longer.
This is the Principate. If our current society is the shoddy council estate turning into a crack den, and the civil war is the fire, then the Principate is the new building that is put up on the ashes-- made of stone, in a classical style. It works, because it is the only solution. Because it is the thing that happens when everything else has been tried and
has failed. That is when men turn back to tradition, and find that it still serves them well, as it did in ages past.
It won't be forever. Entropy is relentless. The Principate yields to the Dominate, and all the old errors get repeated-- with an ultimately fatal outcome. The trend is unaltered. But you'll find that there can still be golden ages, even if every civilisation is ultimately doomed. And the Principate is the greatest golden age of all.
Because it is built on the burnt-out ruins of everything that
didn't work.