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Western civ’s fatal flaw of NOT canceling the debts.
My book Collapse of Antiquity is all about this. The characters will be Hammurabi (1750 BC), Basil I of Byzantine Empire (9th-10th century AD), The French King who killed the Templars, Socrates, Jesus .. and Paul Krugman.