Care to cite an example where that has happened before? Human nature doesn't change much. I cannot recall any civilization on the downward trend reversing course.
“Care to cite an example where that has happened before? Human nature doesn’t change much. I cannot recall any civilization on the downward trend reversing course.”
The wars of Justinian. The Crusades. The rise of the Mongols and their subjugation of China. The Reconquista. Our own founding. The Spanish Civil War. The dissolution of the Soviet Union.
It can be done. It requires ruthlessness, and the dismissal of mewling clerics as the wormtongues they all are at heart.