When biologists (ethologists) seek to understand animal behaviour, they do so from an evolutionary perspective: How, they ask, does such & such a behaviour serve the survival & reproductive success of an individual, or of the social unit the individual is a member of?
We need to apply the same evolutionary perspective to understanding why human societies/states/civilisations, if not destroyed by a rival, ultimately always self-destruct, i.e. weaken themselves to such an extent that virtually any rival is able to destroy them?
This happened to ancient Greece & Rome, & is now happening to our own civilisation.
It's not too late - not yet - for us to recognise the cause & to correct it. All that is standing in our way are the very academics we look to as authorities on understanding society & the state.
It's not too late - not yet - for us to recognise the cause & to correct it. All that is standing in our way are the very academics we look to as authorities on understanding society & the state.
Science progresses with the death of every academic authority, it is sometimes said, only we cannot afford to await the death of a whole generation of social science academics, by which time our civilisation will have fallen. @EPoe187 @epkaufm @NoahCarl90 @HeatherEHeying
That all civilisations ultimately self-destruct is a clear indication of their mal-adaptedness to long-term survival. Rather, they are adapted to the short-term advantage of their own elites & favoured clients of the state. This is what we need to understand & correct.
The biggest obstacle is the fact that academics themselves (including those presumed to be authorities on understanding society & the state) are favoured clients & employees of the state, which blinds them to its true nature. 
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