An autopsy of our civilizational naïveté: Indo-European vigor builds institution

An autopsy of our civilizational naïveté: Indo-European vigor builds institutions whose very success breeds universalism, whose openness invites parasitism, whose optimism denies constraints, whose technology accelerates decline. It sustains a single throughline: constraints reassert themselves after every civilizational overreach. There is no longer need for folly. There is no hope for universalism. The superiority of western civilization does know bounds. We must merely accept them as limits – not upon us – but opon mankind.