Guest Post by K. D. Koratsky – Originally published at Living With Evolution. Due to its academic nature, this version has been edited, revised and serialized with permission from the author.
Study enough history and you will see that even the greatest, most powerful civilizations vanished. One example are the Mayans.
The Aztecs, Incas, Romans, Greeks, Persians and Egyptian civilizations all came to an end, so will the powerful empires of today.
In fact, the America empire specifically and the West generally have been in an unmistakable state of decline over the last several decades.
Meanwhile, China specifically and the East generally have risen over the same period.
In fact, Chinese civilization has collapsed and been reborn several times. The earliest known dynasty, the Xia (2205 to 1783 B.C.), survived for more than 400 years before collapsing.
Today, We appear to be witnessing the latest examples of empires rising and falling in inevitable fashion according to some immutable law.
However, while there is indeed a tendency for empires to fall once they have arisen, this tendency can be overcome.
Repetitive Regress
Generally speaking, the falls of empires typify a regression to the mean that is the standard not only for empires, but for human families, individuals, and even nonhuman species as well.
This phenomenon is a natural outgrowth of greater evolutionary dynamics.
To understand why, we must examine the way cycles of good times and bad affect species and those within them as all compete for survival.
Go to Escaping the Trap – Part 2
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K. D. Koratsky is the author of Living With Evolution or Dying Without it: A Guide to Understanding Humanity’s Past, Present and Future. Koratsky also writes a Blog on this subject at Living With Evolution.
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