Do you have any argument why we should not explore normative rules, or are we just not supposed to do it because your word is law?
Really, you can never think of a civilization falling apart. Not Macedonian Greece after Alexander. Not the Medieval Muslim Caliphates falling to fundamentalism. Not the Mongol bloodline diluting in China. Not the Soviet Union after the perestroika.
I'm not saying necessarily that the modern equivalent of the Visigoths is going to knock down the gates and burn New York City to the ground. I'm not saying it's going to be instantaneous. It might not even happen in my lifetime. But civilizations do decline in importance, and that's what I'm saying I'm expecting to happen with America.
When this happens, information is lost in the process. The Library of Alexandria was burned to the ground. Who knows what treasures the barbarians destroyed in Rome. Some of the scientific advancements of the Muslim Caliphates were surely destroyed by following wave of fundamentalism. It happens.



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