The Roman Empire
All great civilizations and cultures have a curve where they originate, develop into a golden age, and then slowly (or not so slowly) decay into a backward period, and then the cycle resets, maybe in a different part of the world.
People get lazy, decadent, start wanting something for nothing, and voila, decay of a society. Look at ancient (not really so ancient) Rome, a textbook case.
After the collapse of Roman Empire, Europe was plunged into the dark ages for 500-700 years. Mere reproduction is not an accomplishment of civilization. The study of math and natural sciences ground to a halt when Rome was sacked and books burned, and scholars put to the sword.
There will be a reset. Of course what that reset will look like is anybody's guess. People forget how fundamentally the world changed after WW2, when the English empire collapsed. More recent examples include the collapse of Yugoslavia, USSR.
The day the USD collapses, the welfare state will cease to exist. States/economically linked regions will split off into autonomous territories.
NOBODY WILL GIVE A FVCK ABOUT SINGLE MOMS AND SOCIAL ISSUES.
NOBODY WILL GIVE A FVCK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, RAPE CULTURE, GAY MARRIAGE, RACISM OR ANY OTHER BULLSH!T
Similarities between late Rome and present-day America are just scary.
Globalism has all its participants tied hands, feet, and neck to every other participant. What happens when one of the biggest kids goes down?
Sh!t hit the fan? The average American gun owner has more destructive capability than probably a dozen Roman soldiers. Guys like me, we have more destructive power than probably two LEGIONS.
And that's just with the legal firepower I own. That's not counting the knowledge that's kicking around in my head. I'm ready , I'm good ...........what about you?
Edmund Burke — 'Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.'