Arthur Demarest: On the future of the U.S., or of Western
civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. Perhaps that is simply
because “collapse” is what I do. As an archaeologist, I have excavated single
trenches, just a few meters deep, in which you can see stratigraphic levels of
several civilizations. We find layers of artifacts and evidence indicating
periods of great prosperity, but always separated by levels of burned earth,
ash and artifacts that reflect the epochs of social disintegration, chaos and
tragedy that seem to conclude the achievements and aspirations of every
society.
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