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Because people think it's comparable to today, when it isn't.
That's what I think. Trying to draw parallels to history that far back doesn't work because things were radically different. Population was smaller and less dense, life expectancy was less than half, literacy was rare.
I don't think it's fair even to compare today with 100 years ago. It's too different. They say
>Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it
I say bullshit, things have changed so much in the last two decades that nothing from the past is relevant to today. Echoes maybe,
>history may not repeat, but it often rhymes
maybe, but my gut feeling says that trying to predict what is going to happen today based on something that happened that long ago is not gonna work.
Speculative sci-fi is a better lense. Check out The Expanse, specifically the war above Ganemede and the "cascading failures", that's how modern collapse is happening.
>cascading failure
>whiplash effect
>low trust
and how it all ends:
>mouse utopia with cats
