{"id":23043,"date":"2020-11-05T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/why-do-societies-collapse#id28261"},"modified":"2020-11-05T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:39:00","slug":"one-theory-as-to-why-societies-collapse-is-that-when-complexity-increases-and-returns-diminish-citizens-abandon-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/one-theory-as-to-why-societies-collapse-is-that-when-complexity-increases-and-returns-diminish-citizens-abandon-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"One theory as to why societies collapse is that when complexity increases and returns diminish, citizens abandon the system."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>For nearly as long as human beings have gathered in sufficient numbers to form cities and states&mdash;about 6,000 years, a flash in the 300,000-odd-year history of the species&mdash;we have been coming up with theories to explain the downfall of those polities.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/04\/magazine\/societal-collapse.html\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/why-do-societies-collapse\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        For nearly as long as human beings have gathered in sufficient numbers to form cities and states&mdash;about 6,000 years, a flash in the 300,000-odd-year history of the species&mdash;we have been coming up with theories t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23044,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043\/revisions\/23044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}