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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

David Babson, April 15, 2006

An excellent book. I am, however, particularly intrigued by your posted review, by Douglas Brown, which has the ancestors of medieval Norse living in Iceland to this day. Such people would be an incredible historical resource, since they would be between 1,100 and 1,000 years old. This error, saying "ancestors" when you mean "descendants," is an increasingly common collapse of standard English usage and, perhaps, an indication of social decay, through sloppiness and confusion. I am sorry to see Powell's editorial system collapse in this way.

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