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To: tntpal who wrote (37159)	3/6/2022 12:27:50 PM
From: isopatch	11 Recommendations Recommended By alanrs DinoNavarre fred woodall Hugh Bett IC720 and 6 more members Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50190

That's the thing about collapsing empires. The process accelerates rapidly in the final phase. No crystal ball. Just a very demanding, self directed reading rampage focused on the best research revealing how and why empires experience terminal collapse. Well over 20 books from 2005 to 2012. With longer & longer book lists posted on SI for those who wanted to see for themselves. Almost nobody was interested. That's the Catch 22. Populations of every, long gone, empire on every continent & every time period has had the same intense denial about what was happening. This prevented the essential structural reforms which could have saved them. This time is no different. Human nature, in large groups AWA individuals, doesn't change. Iso