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While by and large I agree both with Squatter and Symestreem, I think there is a special applicability to the Atlantis stories that circulate in Gurdjieff's and other esoteric circles. Eseentially it is that Atlantis was destroyed by playing with powerful technology they had no moral maturity to use. JRRT does not really go there with his Akallabeth, focusing instead on a loss of faith in Eru and his agents, and in a growing arrogance amongst the leaders and apathy amongst the masses. Indeed that might be the aspect of the Akallabeth most applicable to America. The whole country [or selected buildings] will sooner or later reap what the leaders sow. Democracies that become full of sheep will sooner or later be led to the slaughter.
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