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Why Do Societies Give Up?

pinenee Wrote: Feb 15, 2013 9:12 AM

Please conservatives, please: The American conservatives speak, declares, it the American "white man" will not accept the American revolution which: Freed we black citizens from Jim Crow. That force religion out of our secular life. American women able to decide who they will marry. That gave young women good medical care. That remove homosexuals from being persecuted The conservative has declared they will end those change in America... The American society didn't give up, who cares? The American conservative declares American citizens can't be free, have equality, or civil liberties, therefore "WHO CARES"? To clarify; who cares what society America becomes, conservatives declare only their society.

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Why Do Societies Give Up?

Why do once-successful societies ossify and decline?

Hundreds of reasons have been adduced for the fall of Rome and the end of the Old Regime in 18th-century France. Reasons run from inflation and excessive spending to resource depletion and enemy invasion, as historians attempt to understand the sudden collapse of the Mycenaeans, the Aztecs and, apparently, the modern Greeks. In literature from Catullus to Edward Gibbon, wealth and leisure -- and who gets the most of both -- more often than poverty and exhaustion implode civilization.

One recurring theme seems consistent in Athenian literature on the eve of the city's takeover...

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