[news] Imperial Entropy

[Resist!ca]

"All empires collapse eventually[. Y]ou name them, they all fell, and most within a few hundred years. The reasons are not really complex. An empire is a kind of state system that inevitably makes the same mistakes simply by the nature of its imperial structure and inevitably fails because of its size, complexity, territorial reach, stratification, heterogeneity, domination, hierarchy, and inequalities."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/22/94115/7775