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definitely not "national". but a civilization rises and then falls. it's a universal cycle, entropy at play.



A word replaced with one more vague one does not a robust argument make. Such a notion of universality lacks the concept of frames of reference and relies on an impoverished understanding of the concept of entropy. The argument for a cyclical imperative to history is at best tautological and fundamentally anti-empirical.


scrabble soup, lol




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