I know what you mean but think we are still like it. I'd be pretty shocked if someone deposed Elizabeth and we still have all these "can she abdicate?" questions when Edward VIII did and we seemed to cope.
And most of us are lucky enough to have grown up in a time of peace and relative prosperity and don't think that it will all cock up. But we've had those before and they tend to get followed by catastrophic wars/Black death/collapse of Roman Empire/rise of horrible murderous despot.
It was reading [i]Collapse[/i] by Jared Diamnond that brought home to me how these nice, stable societies where everything has been fine(ish) for maybe hundreds of years just go poof like that..
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Date: 2013-09-30 08:14 pm (UTC)And most of us are lucky enough to have grown up in a time of peace and relative prosperity and don't think that it will all cock up. But we've had those before and they tend to get followed by catastrophic wars/Black death/collapse of Roman Empire/rise of horrible murderous despot.
It was reading [i]Collapse[/i] by Jared Diamnond that brought home to me how these nice, stable societies where everything has been fine(ish) for maybe hundreds of years just go poof like that..
We're all doomed, I tell you!