Upon reading Jared Diamond’s “The Erosion of Civilization”, I was somewhat surprised. I’ve studied past civilizations, and have read about the Middle East and its one-time dominance. But living in this time, where so much misfortune and corruption occurs in the Middle East, its past is hard to believe. Diamond’s point brought up at the end is valid, but how easy is it for us to predict the future? There are obviously signs of when a country is struggling, as we can see in America right now, but it might just be a little blip on the radar. It might just be a slight dip on the graph, and the country will recover. At the same time, you could say, what if that dip turns into a dive?
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