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As future generations look back on this era, they may see California as a mythic land that achieved everything—and in doing so, lost everything that makes civilization meaningful: community, culture, shared purpose, and moral integrity. The state, once the epitome of American possibility, now stands as a stark warning: that the greatest civilizations may fall not by enemies from without but by decay from within, fueled by arrogance, superficiality, and cultural neglect.