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Study how civilization can avoid collapse and retain open evolution over the long term when destructive capabilities threaten it as a whole.

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Why Civilization Leap

Volume IV: Civilizational Continuity

### Written as civilization becomes conscious of itself. For most of human history, civilization did not realize that it was becoming civilization. History appeared to be driven by countless local choices without an overall direction.

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