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Institutional collapse
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying institutional-collapse. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3782192-005 : If a hierarchy becomes too rigid the organization inevitably fails and the result is a return to chaos, which is why revolutions recur as a cyclic pattern in governmental structures throughout history
- 3782193-002 : Rigid hierarchies are unstable and inevitably fall, eroded either by internal corruption or by novel external challenges that the hierarchy is not flexible enough to adapt to. These are the second and
- 3782193-005 : Imperial China invented the printing press and applied it to centralize power through uniform edicts and the first printed money; the resulting bureaucratic rigidity left the hierarchy unable to respo
- 3782193-015 : Centralized hierarchies have at best always failed after a few centuries and usually much sooner, and the resulting chaos leaves fertile ground for reorganizing the old order, which is what the cyclic