How Do Civilizations Go Insane?

Almost Precisely As Human Beings Do.

How do people go insane?

Most likely like Hemingway’s illustration about going broke - gradually and then all at once.

And how do whole cultures and civilizations go broke, insane, inept and finally wrecked?

Basically when ideas which would have seemed insane to everybody suddenly become accepted as mainstream thought.

This is only one - and one of the most…