[xtiansimon]

> "...much more than endless detail about pre-collapse civilizations like the Minoans."

Funny you should say that, because the author does in the book (by your description) what he describes happening in a systems collapse scenario:

[describing a systems collapse, 48:10] "It usually takes about a century, there's usually a dark age that happens right afterward. And when they're coming out of that dark age they start immortalizing the great period ... before them."