Civilization is effectively hardwired for self-destruction…and there is very little that we can do…a genuine cure would require a revolution in human thought greater than the one that created the modern world… As Will Durant noted, “From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.”
— William Ophuls, Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
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