Something Disturbing Happened to Every Civilization (Michael Button)

For thousands of years, civilizations have risen, flourished… and disappeared.

The Maya. Rome. The Bronze Age kingdoms. The ancient societies buried beneath deserts, jungles, and oceans.

And the disturbing part is not that they collapsed.

It’s how often the same patterns seem to appear before they do...



Button pointing out that civilisations came and went and tended to collapse when they became highly complex. The complexity made them fragile. He asks if there were civilisations existing before the modern historical era.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 4, 2026.]