17 Facts About Societal collapse

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Possible causes of a societal collapse include natural catastrophe, war, pestilence, famine, economic collapse, population decline, and mass migration.

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Statistical analysis of empires by complex systems specialist Samuel Arbesman suggests that Societal collapse is generally a random event and does not depend on age.

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Contemporary discussions about societal collapse are seeking resilience by suggesting societal transformation.

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Societal collapse said that freed slaves had been granted citizenship and Roman allies given seats in government to increase the power and prosperity of Rome, but the "original stock" was not replacing itself and leaving the task to foreigners.

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Societal collapse complexity is then potentially threatened if it develops beyond what is actually sustainable, and a disorderly reorganization were to follow.

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Societal collapse asserts that collapse is best understood by grasping four axioms.

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Societal collapse theorized that all civilizations pass through several distinct stages: genesis, growth, time of troubles, universal state, and disintegration.

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Societal collapse argues that creative minorities deteriorate from a worship of their "former self", by which they become prideful, and they fail in adequately addressing the next challenge that they face.

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Societal collapse argues that as civilizations decay, there is a "schism in the body social", whereby abandon and self-control together replace creativity, and truancy and martyrdom together replace discipleship by the creative minority.

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Societal collapse argues that in that environment, people resort to archaism, futurism, detachment, and transcendence .

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Societal collapse argued that societal disintegration involves the metamorphosis of social instruments, which were set up to meet actual needs, into institutions, which serve their own interest at the expense of social needs.

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Genuine structural Societal collapse seems, in many cases, the only plausible explanation supporting the idea that such structures exist.

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Societal collapse specifically examined how social factors such as income inequality were related to political instability.

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Societal collapse found recurring cycles of unrest in historical societies such as Ancient Egypt, China, and Russia.

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Societal collapse specifically identified two cycles, one long and one short.

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Societal collapse announced in 2010 that he had predicted that in 2020, the US would witness a period of unrest at least on the same level as 1970 because the first cycle coincides with the turbulent part of the second in around 2020.

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Societal collapse warned that the US was not the only Western nation under strain.

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