>> forget what Jared Diamond calls it, but it's the condition where in a collapse of civilization, such as with the Maya, the royalty are sheltered until the end. All that means is they're the last to starve to death.
If the royalty are the last to starve to death, who does the sheltering?Wouldn't the royal shelterers stow away Burger King's last few prodigious meals, tell him....sorry, whoops!...all the food's gone, and hightail it to the Green Line? Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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