This short video is a summary of Arnold Toynbee's thesis on why civilizations decline and die, which is a result of the moral decline of what he terms the "creative class"--the class that originally comes up with the solutions needed by a civilization to survive and expand, but ultimately becomes concerned not with offering up solutions but attempting to preserve their own power.
VIDEO: "How Civilizations Die, According to Arnold Toynbee"--ThinkingWest (5 min.)
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