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Civilizations can vanish in the blink of an eye. When they do, they fade into barbarism or death. The far flung colonies of the roman empire faded into ignorance and want; it took Islam and the mathematics made possible by arabic numerals to start the resnaissance, and the Alhambra is still one of the most beautiful buildings ever erected.
We can, if we foster planned birth and education, especially for women, and reign in the greed and stupidity of financial pirates, move into another kind of society.
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