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51. I had started to explain myself

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 09:40 PM

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but it was threatening to turn into a book so I just hhoped somebody would look the word up.

Thanks for confirming my faith in DU.

Historians from Polybius to Toynbee have all come up with the same idea but they all seem to want to tap dance around the mechanisms behind the eventual concentration of power and then decline.

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