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I don't see any need to invoke grand themes. We are perfectly capable of collapsing via our own unique failings.

Global climate disruption followed by mass migration, triggering fascist government, and then global thermonuclear war, could be our generation's unique mode of collapse.

In particular, you don't need to blame the Woke movement or the US's failed pandemic response. Exxon suffices.

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Many thanks for this remark. That scenario is unfortunately within the realm of possibility -- indeed in a later chapter I will address the topic of climate.

But there are other ways of failing which I think also need to be insured against -- hence my engagement with the cyclical models of history, to see what insight they have to offer.

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