Don't compare today's society with civilizations of 2 and 3 thousand years ago. It's not the same. History is no indication of the future.
You post reminded me of one of those doomsday posts I read the day after 9/11, when everyone was SURE that the end of the world is coming or a nuclear war would break out that would destroy the US.
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