“It can happen that a civilization disappears; it wouldn’t be the first time. Civilizations disappear-it is the norm. Our successors will arrive at an indefinite moment; we don’t know when. And it may be that the civilization will have already vanished. The collapse can occur violently or slowly”.
So speaks Michel Houellebecq to the German newspaper Die Welt this week. It seems “the successors” are arriving on horseback.
