Why are people so obsessed with the idea of a civilization

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Question 1) why are people so obsessed with the idea of a civilization "falling" and always seeing signs of it (either today or in centuries past), and

Question 2) what is it about the end of the Roman Empire that makes it the metaphor or reference point that is always used to talk about civilizational collapse. Put in simpler terms: why do we always think civilization is collapsing, and why are all collapsing civilizations "Rome"?

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