When states collapse, they become filled with miners, beggars, hypocrites, impostors, scribes and reciters, raucous singers, compliant poets, impostors, drummers and tambourine players, fools, fortune-tellers and palm readers, spies, flatterers and slanderers, passers-by and opportunists. Masks are revealed, the incongruous is mixed, appreciation is lost, governance worsens, meanings and words are confused, truth is mixed … Continue reading Ibn Khaldun- Al muqaddima