2006-09-09 13:37:44 · 12 answers · asked by Mark 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
All of the above.
2006-09-09 13:44:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a litte lost as to what you mean. If you had not added the part about "after so carefully building them up?". That last part could mean building up men's egos or building the civilizitions. I don't want to answer it the wrong way and get a bunch of nasty emails and you was asking something else. I kinda pick my fights.
2006-09-09 20:45:13 · answer #2 · answered by Don K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think the building up is all that careful? Most of the time folks are just trying to get by, trying to make a living and raise their kids. Civilizations are living growing things whose courses, while not predetermined in detail, still follow a pattern. As Robinson Jeffers put it, "Out of the mother, through the Spring exultances, ripeness, and decadence, and home to the mother." Our own decadence began when we became rich enough to buy our kids more toys than they were capable of taking care of. Our decadence became fatal when our kids stopped caring about their education. I don't give us more than another quarter century, tops.
2006-09-09 20:47:35 · answer #3 · answered by Philo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They allow voters to elect self-serving immoral politicians who will exchange votes for public funds & benefit projects thereby bankrupting the civilization and leaving it in control of those treasonous leaders who would trade the wealth and security of the nation for their own personal gain...
Kind of like what is being done to the US civilization by the Liberal Democrats who trade welfare & public projects for votes ...
2006-09-09 20:47:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not after building them up, it is in the act itself. Destruction is inherent in all ambition. Civilizations are never built on altruism, never built on ethical duty, they are built in the image of power. It is in contempt of man that civilizations are built up to imprison him, is it not inevitable that he would destroy his own cage, is it not in our nature to be free? Stable governance can only come from decentralized governments operating on the highest ethical goods of the people it governs. When humanity can truly see what is imprisoning them they will cast it off. When humanity can release itself from its will to power then humanity can live civilized lifes. Until then we are destined to live as slaves.
2006-09-09 21:17:14 · answer #5 · answered by kioruke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Warfare, that's what ended the Assyrian Empire.
2006-09-10 13:40:24 · answer #6 · answered by ImAssyrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They always destroy themselves through apathy. Not being willing to defend their way of life to point of dying for it.
2006-09-09 21:18:29 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War, toxic substances in the air and water, brutal dictatorships.
2006-09-09 20:43:22 · answer #8 · answered by starrynight1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_%28book%29
2006-09-09 20:45:44 · answer #9 · answered by hq3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dominance over other men
2006-09-09 20:51:49 · answer #10 · answered by Rider 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋