collapses
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.
Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.