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When good Governments go bad: History shows that Societies collapse when Leaders undermine Social Contracts (scitechdaily.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml to c/politics@hexbear.net

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The researchers also examined a common factor in the collapse of societies with good governance: leaders who abandoned the society’s founding principles and ignored their roles as moral guides for their people.

What does that remind you of?

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[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Our big red boy Matt did a cushvlog series on a book called First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship. It's an examination on the interaction of elite politics and the decline of great powers since the Thirty Years' War which I'd recommended for a more materialist analysis