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When It All Falls Down


“If anything this generation must teach the next generation that true undulated power can only be found in the hearts of the hungry. Sooner or later change will destroy the corruption, and who desires change more than the hungry?”
                                                                                                                - Hamza M.O Egal
It is said that there are no new immoralities under the sun, and all of humanities experiences virtuous or undesirable have touched all of mankind in one way or the other.
Throughout my continuous search for knowledge I have always been fascinated by history. The eloquent records of how previous civilisations reached their heights then by their own misguided actions came tumbling down kept me awake endless nights.
These failed civilisations withered by time, now serve as a reminder to some or as museum attractions to most. We marvel at the ingenuity of the past, the beauty of their architectures, their cunningness in conquest.
Yet there are questions we rarely ask ourselves, how did it all end? What heaved these magnanimous empires into the pits of nonexistence? And where do we stand as a civilisation today on the scales of the universal tradition of rise and fall?
Book after book, documentary after documentary, endless hours of elation and frustration I came across an intriguing essay by a lieutenant General Sir John Glubb, auspiciously titled the “The Fate Of Empires and Search for Survival.”
The British General’s core argument was based on the life cycle analysis of previous empires. Selecting to correlate the time scale of the existences of eleven empires, starting with Assyria (859-612 B.C.) ending with the establishment he was a part of, the infamous British Empire (1700-1950).

To be continued............ 

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