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Societal Collapse
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On taxi-dancing. She said the men prefer her because she is clean.
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― Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnu
― Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnu
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In fact, one of the main lessons to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies (as well as from the recent collapse of the Soviet Union) is that a society's steep decline may begin only a decade or two after the society reaches its peak numbers, wealth, and power. In that respect, the trajectories of the societies that we have discussed are unlike the usual courses of individual human lives, which decline in a prolonged senescence. The re
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― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
