The Fate of Civilizations, Part 2

Is our Age of Decadence dooming us?

Steven Yates
13 min readNov 28, 2022

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Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash

Part 2 of 3. (Read Part 1 here; Part 3 to come.)

Review: from Breakout to Collapse.

Going back quickly: Sir John Bagot Glubb, British military writer and historian who had both assimilated into and studied Arab civilization and its history, developed the view that empires /…

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Steven Yates

I am the author of What Should Philosophy Do? A Theory. I write about philosophy, life, the future, a few current affairs, and every so often, a little music.