Civilizations Fall

     All living beings have at least one definite cycle in their lives –we are born, live and die. Similarly are societies; they are organized, develop and eventually dissipate. Even though living die and civilizations fall, it hardly means that what has been created in their life cycle is thrown to oblivion.
     It is really difficult, if not impossible, to defend the thesis that there will ever be an infallible civilization. The main reason for this skepticism is history. There hasn’t been, until now, any human civilization that has not fallen, the same way that there are no immortal living beings. Roman, Greeks, Persians; the men and their empires all have perished. And the modern globalized world also shows signs that it is a living organism: there are periodical economic crisis; we have already been in the brink of wiping each other out in nuclear wars; and we are changing the planet’s weather to create a new biosphere, which may not be suitable for our own species.
     Although civilizations are as tenuous as leafs in the trees of a deciduous forest, the culture of the society not always falls with its administrative dismantlement. Romans, for example, incorporated Geek culture; and contemporaneous occidental societies have incorporated aspects of both. Also in this aspect civilizations are like living beings, which leave their genetic legacy to their heir.
      Since human societies are living organisms, they are subject to dying. Being alive is a prerequisite to die. The culture, on the other hand, may live on. It just needs to be past on to or picked up by the next grouping of people.

*This is part of a series of writings I did to train for an english test. I'm not a native english writer but, recently, I started studding to be as if I were one. I hope to see my improvement as I post my studies here.