Every Civilization Believes This Before It Collapses

The show is on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Every civilization believes it will last. Rome, Imperial China, Britain and the Soviet Union all thought the old rules of history no longer applied to them. But civilizations repeatedly ignore the same warning signs before they collapse... Are we making the same mistake? Join my Substack, where the ideas go further than YouTube lets me take them: https://michaelbutton.substack.com/ Follow the show on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Let me know what you think in the comments, and thank you for watching!! Follow me on X: https://x.com/MichaelButtonX Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbuttonx/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelius_Aristides https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Roman-Oration/ https://academic.oup.com/book/5839/chapter-abstract/149072793 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Roads_in_the_Roman_Empire.jpg https://www.openculture.com/2017/10/new-digital-archive-puts-online-4000-historic-images-of-rome-the-eternal-city-from-the-16th-to-20th-centuries.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/emed.12755? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing_in_East_Asia https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johannes-Gutenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Song_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_the_Song_dynasty https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Illusion-Norman-Angell-ebook/dp/B0BB6XH7YD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Unionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology/dp/052138673X https://peterturchin.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-History-Last-Man/dp/024196024X