Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.
We moralize among ruins.
The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
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