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Looking ahead, it’s plausible that future generations will view California as a mythic cautionary tale—an era marked by astonishing achievement intertwined with catastrophic failure. Historically, civilizations are often remembered through the lens of variables failing simultaneously. Carol Quigley's approach—decomposing culture into variables—parallels California’s own story: a society with all the ingredients for greatness but ultimately destroyed by one critical variable—culture.