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Heinlein said that you could tell a culture was collapsing from three symptoms: 1. The roads aren't kept up;
2. The citizens don't trust the water supply;
3. There's a fundamental loss of politeness. Bouncing through the potholes on the way to buy Evian the other day, I realized Heinlein was stupid, and raised a middle finger at his grave.