um, no, though that doesn't prove it didn't or couldn't happen in the future. feel free to speculate otherwise!

also prior to said economic collapses, art and philosophy did thrive, maybe there's no causation involved, maybe there is...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

As I see it melo argues quality, not quantity.

So - from a certain perspective - you can easily argue that the art and philosophy of a certain group was qualitively superior to a the decadent culture that precedeed it.

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True philosophical renaissance: God back in its cage, women out to become queens, slaves liberated... Hence tech supremacy within a century or two.

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