Discussion About Why Societies Fail

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Imagine a thriving Greece, full of people working everyday jobs such as building or a political position, kids skipping their way to school in togas ,women dressed in finery with their house slaves. Praying in the temple to the gods statues and a market full of wonderful scents, savory spices and colorful goods such as olives and herbs. How can a once great place like this fall in almost an instant?Other great societies such as Rome, Nazi Germany and the fictional world of “Maze Runner”, a Dystopian novel written by James Dashner, all had similar problems that lead them to eventually failing quickly. Great societies fall as a result of corrupt governments and leaders, costly spending and weakening diseases.

Societies fall for numerous reasons including corrupt leadership. The Gladers, in the Dystopian book “Maze Runner”, were sent to the glade by W.I.C.K.E.D, which as far as we know, is the government system in this place they are at. The leaders are doing “research” or so they say to help cure this sickness they call the flare. The government is trying to preserve the race from this disease. They ignore the minorities ,or the people infected by the disease, like the German people did in the early 1900’s. The minorities are believed to be trash and already dead. Their leader has drilled that into their heads. The people only have this “W.I.C.K.E.D” so they can’t look to anyone else, such as Hitler in Germany. Maybe they might have a dictatorship that is W.I.C.K.E.D. The government is corrupt and their ideas have infected the society. “We won’t let them do this to children. We’ve sworn our lives to fighting WICKED. We can’t lose our humanity, no matter the end result...“You’ll learn more in time... They call it the Scorch—it li...

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...try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it.” This rings true today because we need to not forget what the civilization before us did but we need to move on to makes changes to our ways. Although we don’t know what the future holds, we can learn from the lessons of the past.

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