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August 23, 2026

MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING DURING THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE:

The conventional explanation for Rome’s demographic collapse is wealth. People got comfortable. They stopped having children. It happens to every prosperous civilization. Nothing to be done.

This is wrong. Or rather, it is incomplete in the way that matters most.

Rome didn’t… https://t.co/i77beu6Czm pic.twitter.com/yEG9KNaD5s

— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) August 23, 2026

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