How Will HBO Survive Without `Game of Thrones´?
(WorldNews Entertainment)

There is a vast complexity to the collapse of empires, a varied orchestra of contributing factors steeped in Darwinian theology. Take the Hittite Empire, for example. It endured for more than four centuries but was ultimately conquered not by a single enemy of great infamy, but by the proliferation of smaller challenges in its outskirts. Death by a thousand cuts. Meanwhile, political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon´s The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization details the slow and agonizing economic collapse that can result from our most fundamental of functions: growth. Expansion requires more labor, capital and resources to maintain itself, and that can slowly...