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Normally a lack of a sewage system and the accompanying vermin and disease are the reasons an old city became uninhabitable.
Well, it was a Southern Death Cult. I know they don’t call it that anymore.
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What Doomed the Great City of Cahokia? Not Ecological Hubris, Study Says
NYT ^ | April 24, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET | Asher Elbein
Posted on 4/24/2021, 11:58:42 AM by BenLurkin
Straws and plastic bags.
So St Louis used to be called Cahokia.
Home of Cahokia barbecue!
It’s just not the same.
Antifa and BLM.
The Cliff Notes version: Indigenous immigrants good, clever and at one with Nature. European immigrants bad, brutish and at war with Nature.
They probably failed the same way every other civilization has failed - when people who give more to the nation than they take eventually die out and are replaced by people who take more from the nation that they give.
“ At its peak in the 1100s, Cahokia housed 20,000 people, greater than contemporaneous Paris.”
How many times before or since was Paris ravaged by disease or other calamity? Who kept re-populating it, and why not this Cahokia?
I still think that we do not understand these American “cities” and try to impose a European understanding on them.
Cities serve a purpose. More segmentation, division and specialization of labor is one element of city life. The second is that among the labor element is the development of leisure and work time for thinking and creating. More inventions get developed. “Elites” develop and the elites become the controllers. Elites devise the official and accepted terms. In time the elites produce the calcification of the society the earlier generations of their class helped develop. People start to move away from the central control of the cities. Some of the inventions and mores of the city migrate with the people.
Our own society is in the process of developing the end of its cities, and the end of our society as we know it. The elites are calcifying everything, turning all politics into religion, with orthodoxy, blasphemy, and punishment for objectors increasing. They - the elites - inherited a lot, and they will destroy what their grand parents and great grand parents built.
They had pyramids in America?
Why does this and other links lead with ‘not secure’. Anyone?
It is usually cultish cruelty that brings a top-down society to its demise.
The cultish part of downfall derives from the priestcraft which, while things are going well, takes credit for things going well (harvests, health, victories, etc). As things begin to go poorly, cult priests insist it’s because the people are negligent in appeasing the gods, so the priests demand more. As circumstances continue to worsen, the sacrifices demanded of the people become intolerable. The people rebel, revolt, overthrow and execute the tyrants.
The closely-held secrets of the advanced society go to the grave with the adepts. Unaware of how to run the society as before, and perhaps haunted by it, the peons scatter or are absorbed by lesser tribes.
Or, as literate people call them, "natives" -- the opposite of "immigrants".
Sounds like the direct consequences of liberalism struck them...
“on the banks of the Mississippi River”
I guess these people think “pre-Columbian” means “pre-river floods”.
“destroyed the city through wood clearing”
Wood became increasing more expensive and hard to get as colonial Philadelphia grew. Forests were cut down for many miles beyond the city.
Ben Franklin developed his ‘Franklin stove’ to utilize wood more efficiently.
NYC also had a big wood supply problem in the early 19th Century, but coal from NE Pennsylvania was brought into NYC, permitting NYC to continue growing.