Doug Casey's Take [ep.#85] Civilizational Collapse

The history of man is not one of a long, steady improvement in living standards. In fact, there have been at least two devastating collapses of major civilizations where critical knowledge was lost ushering in a dark age.

What happened and what can these periods tell us about today?

Discussed in this video:
12 Endangered Traits of Western Civilization https://youtu.be/B0a9NvuU3Ok

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00:00 intro
3:58 Civilization collapse
5:00 start of civilization
7:00 stone age
10:06 Copper
12:21 Roman empire
16:30 complex society
26:05 loss of technology?
30:15 lost knowledge
33:39 todays production
38:30 western values
45:23 not a coincidence
49:33 learned helplessness
51:11 divide us via language