Ibn Khaldun: The Shocking Truth About Why Civilizations Collapse

Hard times - strong men - good times - weak men - hard times. Even the latest generation youth knows. Hard times is coming.

Glad that people are beginning to recognize this brilliant thinker!

Bottom line, anything to excess will destroy you.

Very relevant concepts for our decadent and troubled times.

This was a wise guy. Very few reach this wide comprehension of societied through history.

To author: Khaldun do not need your apologies.

This video begins in a very untruthful way... The milddle ages lasted more than 800 years and most of them were of great progress... The University System, with more tham 80 Universities all across Europe, from Portugal to the Czeck Republic... From UK to Italy... and most of those 80 exist until today... No! No! No! The Middle Ages had its fine centuries also...

'While Europe slumbered through the Dark Ages'. This dismissive assertion reveals a profound ignorance of the variety and sophistication of European culture.

As we can see , the Relation (possiby Asabiyyah in Ibn Khaldu view) is the only Creator in the Univers. It creates new Properties that we can not find in any individual participants, a new kind of Intelligence among those properties .

“culture” is just a collection of solutions that worked to assure a society’s survival and thriving, in its accumulated history. that’s why it’s strongly correlated with what kind of environment the culture evolved in, and the historical pressures it had survived - because what became coded in what we call “culture” had helped them survive it. rather than judge what’s “higher” and “lower” as if there’s a hierarchy or linear progression, we should have the insight to understand that different cultures contain the “DNA” that can help humans through different struggles, and then we can appreciate all of them because at the scale of millennia, as civilisations rise and collapse, one day we might want to know how to face a struggle new to us, but not new to another culture who once survived something like it in a time perhaps only barely remembered.

So the answer would be rejecting asabiyyah altogether, striving for individualism & equality over repeating violent conflicts ? Assabiyyah translates to group dynamics in sociology, and Ibn Khaldun's answer seems to be the enlightenment of civilisation in education.

Along with complacency comes expectations. Expectations breeds hatred of the established order and it's failings.

Immortality and the oppression of others.

Why the disclaimers about prejudice? That is the very lack of strength, fickleness, susceptible to luxury and ease that makes you say that. Just state what you think without disclaimers or do not say it at all.

Really enjoyed this summary of Khaldun!

God bless you, Brother. Amazing video ❤

Thank you for this. As a regenerative farmer, this rings true on every level not only for civilizations but for people and for plants and ecosystems and animals. Evolution is the process by which an organism responds to external pressures when you remove those pressures the process of evolution is arrested and ultimately that organism Becomes separate from its surroundings, unless able to adapt. Survival of the fittest is a concept which talks not about strength, but about an organisms ability to have a place within the greater surroundings of its environment. Every organism is destroyed by its own success, it chokes itself out by proliferating itself into grade and abundance. we need to keep this in mind right now at this point of civilization transition if we have the capacity to find a new challenge, perhaps repairing our planet from an environmental standpoint we have a chance to synthetically put pressure on ourselves as a species and therefore reignite our own evolutionary process to become further aligned with the rest of lifekeep up the good

I lived the past 15 years with vthe Bedouins and oh my God so many things to learn, and I reached to a lot of similar conclusions with Ibn Khaldoon, to begin with they really don't care about us and there are different species, because they're so freaking rich. and by Rich in Arabic means that you don't really need someone else, this is with rich literally means so of course having money means that you don't need people that much but b really so freaking rich their life is so freaking fulfilling I had many things to share later go to sleep now

Mal Asbab or just Asbab is a common urdu term, I think, closely related to that term. Very interesting insight.

Brilliant and Thank you!. Many would have one think that there is no such thing as the Islamic contribution to scientific thought.