How We Fail: The Empire Is Forever
Tunnel-vision greed and blindness to what is unseen and therefore "unknowable" is self-reinforcing.
The immense literature on the decline and collapse of civilizations tends to overlook a simple but profound dynamic: the tunnel-vision created by the fusion of an unquestioned belief in the permanence of the status quo and a narrow focus on maintaining and/or expanding the perquisites we’re siphoning off of the empire.
The list of causes / sources of dec…
