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Monday, September 20, 2010
PLUTOCRACY ALWAYS FALLS
Bill Moyers signed off his last broadcast in May with an editorial discussion on why plutocracy and democracy don't mix.
Facebook friend Brian Willson wrote this morning about MAYAN Lessons: Why did Mayan civilization collapse?
"By 800 AD its society had too many elites demanding exotic trinkets. More temples were needed & higher caloric demand on workers required more food production & more slave labor from other city-states. Slaves were overworked & underfed. Confidence in the nobility collapsed. Workers abandoned the centers & fled. The nobility starved. Mayan civilization collapsed. Lessons?"
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