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This essay aims to explore the crisis facing Western civilization by contrasting real values and financial concepts.

February 26, 20260 citationsOpen Access

MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE: The Fall of the West Between Collectibles, Debt, and the Return of Reality

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This essay aims to explore the crisis facing Western civilization by contrasting real values and financial concepts.
Analyzes Shakespeare's reference in Richard III to illustrate societal decline.
Explores the effects of comfort on the adaptability of civilizations.
Invokes the concept of the Medium Environmental Challenge.
Finds that the erosion of comfort impacts civilizational resilience.
Highlights historical cycles that reflect the current crisis.
Suggests a need to distinguish between price and intrinsic value.

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abstract: | This essay explores the crisis of the Western system through the lens of Shakespeare's cry from Richard III, contrasting real value and financial fiction. It analyzes how comfort has eroded civilizational adaptability, invoking the "Medium Environmental Challenge" (Curto) and historical cycles, proposing an interior return to discerning price from value.

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Luigino Morello (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699fe32295ddcd3a253e6b84 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18755020