Why Civilizations Forget What Built Them
Prosperity is amnesia’s favorite condition. The generation that inherits a working order is the most likely to mistake it for nature, and to neglect it.
Civilizations rise and fall according to the truths they honor.
What is inherited without cost is defended without conviction. This essay is a placeholder in the local scaffold. When PRISM is connected to Ghost, the full piece is authored and published there, and this page renders the live content automatically.
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