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«Like Easter Island chiefs erecting ever larger statues, eventually crowned by pukao, and like Anasazi elite treating themselves to necklaces of 2000 turquoise beads, Maya kings sough to outdo each other with more and more impressive temples, covered with thicker plaster – reminiscent in turn of the extravagant conspicuous consumption by modern American CEOs. The passivity of Easter chiefs and Maya kings in the face of real big threats to their societies completes our list of disquieting parallels.»

Collapse, Jared Diamond