The state always looks solid, but it survives by consuming more than it creates. It grows heavier, slower, and more dependent on force. Bureaucracy multiplies. Debt rises. Trust evaporates. The machine expands until it can no longer support its own weight.
Collapse comes not from revolt but from exhaustion. People quietly stop believing. They build parallel systems for work, trade, and identity. When society moves on, the state becomes an empty shell.
Every empire falls this way. The modern one will too. Its collapse will not end life. It will simply clear the space for voluntary order to return.
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