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Essentially in the fourth book

Dude becomes a deity, and breaks the cyclical nature of societal decay

Ill put it like this, i think everyone wants to create a paradise for their people in the end

in your view what causes societal decay?

Success

A country grows, exerts its power

It becomes strong and bloated

There are no enemies to keep it on its feet, no outside issue to stimulate change

So all that's left is the occasional reformer

And with its wealth and cradle of power it falls to corruption, or becomes weak in the face of another power due to arrogance

And falls

Such is the cycle of every civilisation

All have gone through it all go through it

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Well except those that get crushed beneath another

This cycle of decay limits greater progress and creates conflict

Out of the ashes of a collapsing civilisation, new ones form, and it puts back development

In ancient Egypt there was a concept called Ma'at it had no real translation, but it's sorta a mix between, divine order, and tranquility, Egypt lasted thousands of years

I want Ma'at for all of humanity, for all time, so that no child ever be plagued by the unjust loss of parents, so that none starve, or needlessly suffer

Tfw i just ranted the fuck out of this channel

Rip LCU

maybe no one starved but people didn't really have that great of lives, slavory was rampant in Egypt

Ma'at was only conceptual in Egypt, and for the ancient Mediterranean they had quite fair lives

Egypt to me was a starting point

Not the destination

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also if you think we're in a decay period right now how do you explain technology constantly improving with ever more inovation?

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Because we haven't reached collapse yet, we are still in what could be considered the golden era of our civilisations

On the start to decline

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There will be more conflict to come, more innovation