The hands and fingers have a good deal to do with stealing; and the history of many a man's life is written by his ten fingers. Don Quixote

In fact, one of the main lesson to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies (as well as from the recent collapse of the Soviet Union) is that a society's steep decline may begin only a decade or two after the society reaches its peak numbers, wealth, and power. [...] The reason is simple: maximum population, wealth, resource consumption, and waste production mean maximum environmental impact, approaching the limit where impact outstrips resources. On reflection, it's no surprise that declines of societies tend to follow swiftly on their peaks. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.” 1984

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. Man and Crisis